Quotes About Perseverance

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

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

where the stores left in 1902 should still be.

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

McNeish's tomcat, which had mistakenly been named Mrs. Chippy

They had had no sleep for almost eighty hours, and their bodies had been drained by exposure

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

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

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

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.

Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated.

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

Fortitudine vincimus—"By endurance we conquer.

He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

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.

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.

But the dawn did come—at last.

And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

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 days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months,The months will add themselves and make the years,The years will roll into the centuries,And mine will ever be a name of scorn.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.