Who said fortitudine vincimus

Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. Ice conditions were unusually harsh, and the wooden ship, which Shackleton had renamed Endurance after his family motto, Fortitudine Vincimus—"by endurance we conquer," became trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea.

For 10 months, the Endurance drifted, locked within the ice, until the pressure crushed the ship. With meager food, clothing and shelter, Shackleton and his men were stranded on the ice floes, where they camped for five months.

When they had drifted to the northern edge of the pack, encountering open leads of water, the men sailed the three small lifeboats they'd salvaged to a bleak crag called Elephant Island. They were on land for the first time in days; however, it was uninhabited and, due to its distance from shipping lanes, provided no hope for rescue. Recognizing the severity of the physical and mental strains on his men, Shackleton and five others immediately set out to take the crew's rescue into their own hands.

In a foot lifeboat named the James Caird, they accomplished the impossible, surviving a day, mile journey through the world's worst seas to South Georgia Island, where a whaling station was located.

Six weeks and a very carefully selected artist later, the deed was done. It says so in ink. Jef endured and finished his second attempt at the Boston Light Swim in Steven Munatones. Imrie Award First, since our hope is based upon God and not ourselves, we know we parents can endure anything by the power of His Spirit. By endurance we can indeed conquer.

Second, if we can but teach our children to learn how to endure difficult seasons — through teaching of historical figures or through our own example — they will have a huge head-start on the worldly man who often gives up when the winds of adversity blow. Shackelton wanted to leave a legacy of being the first to cross the Antarctic. He failed at his original mission, but because he endured, he left a much greater legacy. His experience is still celebrated years later as one of the greatest human feats of exploration.