After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
- Ernest Shackleton Quote

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
- Ernest Shackleton Quote

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
- Ernest Shackleton Quote

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
- Ernest Shackleton Quote

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
- Ernest Shackleton Quote

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
- Ernest Shackleton Quote