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If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine, seldom as bad as it sounds.

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

More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.

Such extremity of suffering cannot be measured: madness or death may give relief.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.

If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.

War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

Mere intelligence is still not courage, for we often see the cleverest people devoid of resolution.

Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.

War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.

There are persons who possess the keenest perception for the most difficult problems, who are also not fearful of responsibility, and yet in cases of difficulty cannot come to a resolution.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

I want to fall… forward. At least I figure that way I’ll see what I’m about to hit.

To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

If I’m going to fall, I don’t want to fall back on anything, except my faith.

It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.

The point is, every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. But do you have guts to fail?

And when you fall throughout life—and maybe even tonight after a few too many glasses of champagne—fall forward.

And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.