Optimism is the true moral courage.

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

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion..

When things are easy, I hate it..

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition..

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Col….

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 whi….

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure w….

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

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible..

(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete d….

Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules….

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 e….

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 re….

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 th….

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

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all..

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going..

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

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 m….

Optimism is true moral courage..