"The James Caird Society"

Ernest Shackleton Military See all quotes by Ernest Shackleton →

React to this quote

More by Ernest Shackleton

“Ernest Shackleton describing his 1908 South Pole Expedition”

“The outstanding feature of today’s march is that we have seen new land to the South never seen by human eyes before great snow clad heights we did not see on our journey South on the last Expedition for we were too close to the land or rather foothills and now at the great distance we are out they can plainly be seen.”

“Photo by Philip Brocklehurst : Ernest Shackleton and dogs on Nimrod back from expedition to reach Antarctica”

“Ongoing search for the apocryphal "Men wanted for hazardous journey. ..." advertisement”

“Better a live donkey than a dead lion.”

“Sir Ernest Shackleton at Athy Heritage Centre Museum”

Resonant Thoughts

"Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. … One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on …"

— Rollo May

Philosophy1909–1994

#Human Nature

"Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live."

— Garry Kasparov

Politics1963

#Human Nature

"And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign."

— Donald Rumsfeld

Politics1932–2021

#Human Nature

"In fact Sax was suspicious of all the current cosmology, placing humanity as it did right at the center of things, time after time. It suggested to Sax that all these formulations were artifacts of hu…"

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Science1952

#Human Nature