Ernest Shackleton Quotes

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Ernest Shackleton

After, Overcome

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
Ernest Shackleton

Strength, Class, Drunkard

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton

Effort, Worth, Results

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

Imagine, Standing, Heavy

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

Nature, God, Soul

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.
Ernest Shackleton

After, Able, Might

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

Eyes, Last, Lead

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

Men, Moment, Seen

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

Great, End, Snow

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: February 2, 1874

Died: January 5, 1922

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