Will

“Presence of mind, and courage in distress, Are more than armies to procure success.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

“Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of
physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic (Illustrated Edition): The Greatest Adventure Story Ever Told