Quotes About Determination

after a few minutes Worsley angrily cut it loose.

If they were to get out—they had to get themselves out.

No importa qué posibilidades tenga, un hombre no pone su última esperanza en algo y luego espera que ese algo fracase.

No choice remained but to hoist sail and try to claw their way offshore into the teeth of this fiendish gale.

she was not constructed so as to rise out of pressure to any great extent.

There was even a trace of mild exhilaration in their attitude. At least, they had a clear-cut task ahead of them. The nine months of indecision, of speculation about what might happen, of aimless drifting with the pack were over. Now they simply had to get themselves out, however appallingly difficult that might be.

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

In a tired hand he concluded the entry: "My dogs will be shot tomorrow.

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.

But at five o'clock they knew it was time to give up. She was done, and nobody needed to tell them.

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

Then he laid the Bible in the snow and walked away.

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

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

Another night, this time without a drop of water, and possibly another gale—they simply did not have it in them.

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.

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.

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

O iron nerve to true occasion true,O fall'n at length, that tower of strengthWhich stood four-square to all the winds that blew.