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Top 20 Alfred Lansing Quotes (2024 Update)

Alfred Lansing Quote: “Fortitudine vincimus – “By endurance we conquer.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “They had been the underdog, fit only to endure the punishment inflicted on them. But sufficiently provoked, there is hardly a creature on God’s earth that ultimately won’t turn and attempt to fight, regardless of the odds.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “In all the world there is no desolation more complete than the polar night. It is a return to the Ice Age – no warmth, no life, no movement. Only those who have experienced it can fully appreciate what it means to be without the sun day after day and week after week. Few men unaccustomed to it can fight off its effects altogether, and it has driven some men mad.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition’s original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “Of all their enemies – the cold, the ice, the sea – he feared none more than demoralization.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “I long for some rest, free from thought.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “Whatever his mood – whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage – he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “But the dawn did come – at last.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “The whole undertaking was criticized in some circles as being too “audacious.” And perhaps it was. But if it hadn’t been audacious, it wouldn’t have been to Shackleton’s liking. He was, above all, an explorer in the classic mold – utterly self-reliant, romantic, and just a little swashbuckling.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained – the achievement of the goal.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at that very moment, were camped on a precarious, storm-washed spit of beach, as helpless and isolated from the outside world as if they were on another planet. Their plight was known only to the six men in this ridiculously little boat, whose responsibility now was to prove that all the laws of chance were wrong – and return with help. It was a staggering trust.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “It was as if they had suddenly emerged into infinity. They had an ocean to themselves, a desolate, hostile vastness. Shackleton thought of the lines of Coleridge: Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “I have a great many opinions about writing, but I’m afraid that all of them are unprintable.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “It was now light twenty-four hours a day; the sun disappeared only briefly near midnight, leaving prolonged, magnificent twilight. Often during this period, the phenomenon of an “ice shower,” caused by the moisture in the air freezing and settling to earth, lent a fairyland atmosphere to the scene.”
Alfred Lansing Quote: “They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake. Worsley recorded: “Waking on a fine morning I feel a great longing for the smell of dewy wet grass and flowers of a Spring morning in New Zealand or England. One has very few other longings for civilization – good bread and butter, Munich beer, Coromandel rock oysters, apple pie and Devonshire cream are pleasant reminiscences rather than longings.”
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