Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.
If you’re a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you’ve got to keep going.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
By endurance we conquer.
Optimism is true moral courage.
Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.
I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
When things are easy, I hate it.
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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.