Top 30 Ernest Shackleton Quotes (2024 Update)

Ernest Shackleton Quote: “By endurance we conquer.”

1. “By endurance we conquer.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”

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

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Optimism is true moral courage.”

3. “Optimism is true moral courage.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.”

4. “If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “When things are easy, I hate it.”

5. “When things are easy, I hate it.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.”

6. “I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.”

7. “Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.”

8. “Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.”

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

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

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

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “No person who has not spent a period of his life in those ‘stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole’ will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.”

11. “No person who has not spent a period of his life in those ‘stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole’ will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.”

12. “A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying – the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea.”

13. “After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying – the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Huge blocks of ice, weighing many tons, were lifted into the air and tossed aside as other masses rose beneath them. We were helpless intruders in a strange world, our lives dependent upon the play of grim elementary forces that made a mock of our puny efforts.”

17. “Huge blocks of ice, weighing many tons, were lifted into the air and tossed aside as other masses rose beneath them. We were helpless intruders in a strange world, our lives dependent upon the play of grim elementary forces that made a mock of our puny efforts.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Need to put footstep of courage into stirrup of patience.”

18. “Need to put footstep of courage into stirrup of patience.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “A strange occurrence was the sudden appearance of eight emperor penguins from a crack 100 yds. away at the moment when the pressure upon the ship was at its climax. They walked a little way towards us, halted, and after a few ordinary calls proceeded to utter weird cries that sounded like a dirge for the ship. None of us had ever before heard the emperors utter any other than the most simple calls or cries, and the effect of this concerted effort was almost startling.”

19. “A strange occurrence was the sudden appearance of eight emperor penguins from a crack 100 yds. away at the moment when the pressure upon the ship was at its climax. They walked a little way towards us, halted, and after a few ordinary calls proceeded to utter weird cries that sounded like a dirge for the ship. None of us had ever before heard the emperors utter any other than the most simple calls or cries, and the effect of this concerted effort was almost startling.”

— Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton Quote: “I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.”

20. “I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.”

21. “One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible.”

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

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

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Deep seemed the valleys when we lay between the reeling seas.”

23. “Deep seemed the valleys when we lay between the reeling seas.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.”

24. “From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “The temperature was not strikingly low as temperatures go down here, but the terrific winds penetrate the flimsy fabric of our fragile tents and create so much draught that it is impossible to keep warm within. At supper last night our drinking-water froze over in the tin in the tent before we could drink it. It is curious how thirsty we all are.”

26. “The temperature was not strikingly low as temperatures go down here, but the terrific winds penetrate the flimsy fabric of our fragile tents and create so much draught that it is impossible to keep warm within. At supper last night our drinking-water froze over in the tin in the tent before we could drink it. It is curious how thirsty we all are.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Just when things looked their worse, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.”

28. “Just when things looked their worse, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “Our spoons are one of our indispensable possessions here. To lose one’s spoon would be almost as serious as it is for an edentate person to lose his set of false teeth.”

29. “Our spoons are one of our indispensable possessions here. To lose one’s spoon would be almost as serious as it is for an edentate person to lose his set of false teeth.”

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Ernest Shackleton Quote: “The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and I have vivid memories of their angular peculiarities even to-day.”

30. “The moving of the boulders was weary and painful work. We came to know every one of the stones by sight and touch, and I have vivid memories of their angular peculiarities even to-day.”

— Ernest Shackleton

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