Ernest Shackleton Quotes

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

Stop fearing being attacked.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down.

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.

Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

[F]ear is a great ally.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

Throw me to the wolves and I shall return leading the pack.