Best Quotes by Ernest Shackleton (Top 10)
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Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Ernest Shackleton
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Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.
Ernest Shackleton
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
Ernest Shackleton
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Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton
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We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
Ernest Shackleton
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I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
Ernest Shackleton
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The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
Ernest Shackleton
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I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Ernest Shackleton
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I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.
Ernest Shackleton
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
Ernest Shackleton
More Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
Ernest Shackleton