Ernest Shackleton Quotes

"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
(Related: Men, Clouds, Sky)

"Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results."
- Ernest Shackleton
(Related: Effort, Results, Worth)

"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
(Related: Eyes, Now, Want, Will)

"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

"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
(Related: Day, Earth, End, Snow, Vow)

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
- Ernest Shackleton
(Related: Difficulties)

"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
(Related: Gods, Hunger, Months, Want)

"If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard."
- Ernest Shackleton
(Related: Strength, Class, First, Will)