Ernest Shackleton Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Ernest Shackleton:

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#2ba467ad

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#af6530d2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#a7737a20

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#80de8e5a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#b3fa578c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#5957027d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#c4a97a9c

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#272b2f3a

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ernest-shackleton-quotes/#28a4d34a

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