Quotes About Challenge

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

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

It brought the total run since the beginning of the gale to 84 miles—in six days.

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

and they would be dragging two of their three boats with them

On February 9, Shackleton wrote: "No seals. Must reduce blubber consumption . . . oh for a touch of dry land under our feet.

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

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

Hurriedly they ran up every sail to its full height and headed for the narrow opening in the reefs.

Then they came about once more onto the starboard tack. This time she just managed to slip through.

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

And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The results are impressive.

This, then, was the Drake Passage, the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe—and rightly so. Here nature has been given a proving ground on which to demonstrate what she can do if left alone. The

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.

The worst is yet to come.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

the major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur :—like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Some spent years undermining Pfeiffer's theory, and others—among them many of the most brilliant scientists of the era—took off after other alleged villains, spending untold thousands of man-hours in the crucially important but thankless task of proving themselves wrong.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it