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

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- Ernest Shackleton

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

- Ernest Shackleton

Optimism is true moral courage.

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- Ernest Shackleton

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…

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- Ernest Shackleton

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…

- Ernest Shackleton