Quotes About Courage

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I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or hell which way to fall.

The thing about fear," said Cadfael, seriously considering, "is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Wild ran to get his rifle from his tent, then he dropped to one knee and shot.

In appearance, the Endurance was beautiful by any standards.

of which the forward one was square-rigged

while the after two carried fore-and-aft sails, like a schooner.

At twelve-forty, Shackleton gave the order in a quiet voice. "Launch the boats.

It was one-thirty in the afternoon when the crews scrambled on board each boat;

The James Caird was in the lead with Shackleton at the tiller.

after a few minutes Worsley angrily cut it loose.

When she had been abandoned twenty-five days before, it had seemed that she would sink at any moment.

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. It gave Shackleton

with the possible exception of the Fram, the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen, and later by Amundsen.

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

The Endurance is crushed between the floes, October 24, 1915 (Royal Geographic Society) Frank Wild surveys the wreck of the Endurance on November 8, 1915, during their last official visit to the wreck (Royal Geographic Society)

However, on the trip from London to Buenos Aires

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

They looked up against the darkening sky and saw the fog curling over the edge of the ridges, perhaps 2,000 feet above them—and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.

unsuspectingly around the ice hummock to his death with his tail wagging.

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

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

along with Sirius, an older puppy from an earlier litter