Robert Falcon Scott Quotes & Sayings

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. — Robert Falcon Scott

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

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole. — Robert Falcon Scott

I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company. — Robert Falcon Scott

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant. — Robert Falcon Scott

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. — Robert Falcon Scott

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record. — Robert Falcon Scott

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. — Robert Falcon Scott

God help us, we can't keep up this pulling, that is certain. Amongst ourselves we are unendingly cheerful, but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess. — Robert Falcon Scott

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

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. — Robert Falcon Scott

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment. — Robert Falcon Scott

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. — Robert Falcon Scott

Resignation to misfortune is the only attitude, but not an easy one to adopt. It seems undeserved where plans were well laid and so nearly crowned with a first success. I cannot see that any plan would be altered if it were to do again, the margin for bad weather was ample according to all experience and this stormy December - our finest month - is a thing that the most cautious organiser might not have been prepared to encounter. It is very evil to lie here in a wet sleeping-bag and think of the pity of it all. — Robert Falcon Scott

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint. — Robert Falcon Scott

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people. — Robert Falcon Scott

We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world. — Robert Falcon Scott

The eternal silence of the great white desert. Cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from the south, pale yellow wraiths, heralding the coming storm, blotting out one by one the sharp-cut lines of the land. — Robert Falcon Scott

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

It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows. — Robert Falcon Scott

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools. — Robert Falcon Scott

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. — Robert Falcon Scott

Great God! This is an awful place. — Robert Falcon Scott

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. — Robert Falcon Scott

After lunch, and Evans still not appearing, we looked out, to see him still afar off. By this time we were alarmed, and all four started back on ski. I was first to reach the poor man and shocked at his appearance; he was on his knees with clothing disarranged, hands uncovered and frostbitten, and a wild look in his eyes. — Robert Falcon Scott

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. — Robert Falcon Scott

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more. — Robert Falcon Scott

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

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business. — Robert Falcon Scott

Winners are born, Champions are made. — Robert Falcon Scott

It is better that the law should be certain than that every judge should speculate upon improvements in it. — Robert Falcon Scott

Each man in his way is a treasure. — Robert Falcon Scott

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

Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. — Robert Falcon Scott

To wait idly is the worst of conditions. — Robert Falcon Scott

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid. — Robert Falcon Scott

It is always rather dismal work walking over the great snow plain when sky and surface merge in one pall of dead whiteness, but it is cheering to be in such good company with everything going on steadily and well. — Robert Falcon Scott

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind. — Robert Falcon Scott

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for. — Robert Falcon Scott