Quotes About Endurance

The real shame to a person is also not to make a name worth remembering by the people for several years on the earth.

Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give her such a hearty appetite?

There's a fire been lit that's not so easy to put out

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

T]he Pictures of the Pen shall outlast those of the Pencil, and even Worlds themselves.

We can never achieve success without suffering !!

The only thing that separates success from failure is one last attempt. Try one more time and you will get lucky.

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

Whilst we knew what we had suffered and risked better than any one else, we also knew that science takes no account of such things; that a man is no better for having made the worst journey in the world; and that whether he returns alive or drops by the way will be all the same a hundred years hence if his records and specimens come safely to hand.

Then some prayers from the Burial Service: and there with the floor-cloth under them and the tent above we buried them in their sleeping-bags—and surely their work has not been in vain.

The point, one begins to see, was not merely to survive; it was to come through intact, true to one's most decent self — in short, to survive as English gentlemen.

Five men went forward, Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Seaman Evans. They reached the Pole on January 17 to find that Amundsen had reached it thirty-four days earlier. They returned 721 statute miles and perished 177 miles from their winter quarters.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.

And at the end, when Scott himself lay dying, he wrote to Mrs. Wilson: "I can do no more to comfort you, than to tell you that he died as he lived, a brave, true man—the best of comrades and staunchest of friends.

Men do not fear death, they fear the pain of dying.

If you want a good polar traveller get a man without too much muscle, with good physical tone, and let his mind be on wires—of steel. And if you can't get both, sacrifice physique and bank on will.

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

The hours must be endured and those who cannot do so in life will most surely do so in death. You say you cannot face them? Life's joys and pains both? You shall find them waiting for you, a world of ignored moments there to be explored. Then shall you know how long an hour can be, shall feel the awful depth and restlessness of even a single day, and all the days you fled from life while you were alive.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.