Ernest Shackleton

“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.”

“אחרי הכול, קשיים הם רק דברים שצריך להתגבר עליהם.”

“עדיף להיות חמור חי מאשר אריה מת.”

“אחרי הכול, קשיים הם רק דברים שצריך להתגבר עליהם.”

“עדיף להיות חמור חי מאשר אריה מת.”

“After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.”

“We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”

“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.”

“i had a dream when i was 22 that someday 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”

“My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.”

“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.”

“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”

“Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

“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.”

“If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.”