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. ”

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

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”