Quotes About Leadership

Crean hurriedly took over the helm from Worsley who spread the chart out so that he and Shackleton might study

Shackelton rushed aft and took over the lines of the tiller from Crean.

Shackleton shouted excitedly to McNeish and Vincent below to shift ballast

just to be in his presence was an experience. It was what made Shackleton so great a leader.

Then on January 13, a rumor spread that Shackleton was considering killing the dogs

Then, in a quiet, level voice, Shackleton ordered Wild to shoot his own team along with McIlroy's, Marston's, and Crean's.

Each dog in turn was taken off his trace and led behind a row of large ice hummocks.

Shackleton decided to spare Greenstreet's team of year-old puppies "for the present

Shackleton told Macklin that since the party now had a fair supply of meat, his dogs would not be killed

Hurley's team though, including the leader, Shakespeare, the biggest of all the dogs, was shot.

Shackleton wrote, almost timorously, "This may be the turn in our fortune.

a party of eighteen under Wild should start out early the next morning to bring up the Stancomb Wills.

Shackleton immediately asked Macklin if he felt too tired to go back again to Ocean Camp

Alexandra of England. Shackleton carried the Bible in his hand as he left the Endurance

Shackleton made the decision on the spot: they would abandon the effort to reach Clarence or Elephant Island

On one trip, a group of men ran the blue Union Jack up to the forward yardarm

Before he left, Shackleton ordered the three youngest puppies killed

Tom Crean, tough and practical as ever, took the younger puppies

Mrs. Chippy some distance from camp and shot them without a qualm

Shackleton immediately ran back to camp, going from tent to tent shouting

Wild, with six men, was sent back to the ship to salvage anything of value.

For scientific leadership give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.

The whole undertaking was criticized in some circles as being too "audacious." And perhaps it was. But if it hadn't been audacious, it wouldn't have been to Shackleton's liking. He was, above all, an explorer in the classic mold—utterly self-reliant, romantic, and just a little swashbuckling.

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—Else, wherefore born?