Quotes from Sir Ernest Shackleton

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.

Deep seemed the valleys when we lay between the reeling seas.

Men are not made from easy victories, but based on great defeats

Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour.