Quotes from David Livingstone

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

I am immortal till my work is accomplished.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.