49 Quotes by Robert Falcon Scott

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.