Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by David Livingstone (Scottish Missionary, Explorer)

David Livingstone (1813–73) was a Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa. Often considered the greatest of all African voyagers and antislavery advocates, he exercised a seminal influence on Western attitudes toward Africa. He tried to provide an alternative to the slave trade for the continent by opening Africa to Christian commerce and missionary posts.

Born to mill-workers living in a single room in Blantyre, near Glasgow, Livingstone studied medicine in London to become a missionary, first in Bechuanaland (now Botswana.) For the next 30 years, Livingstone traveled and did Christian missionary work in southern, central, and eastern Africa—often in places where no European had formerly ventured. He discovered Lake Ngami (1849,) the Zambezi River (1851,) and the Victoria Falls (1855.) The vast amount of information he gathered about the land and the native tribes—geographic, anthropological, medical—provided a complex body of knowledge that is being explored even today.

Livingstone died in present-day Zambia from malaria and dysentery. His devoted followers embalmed his body and carried it over 1000 miles to the coast. It was taken to Britain and buried in London’s Westminster Abbey.

Livingstone remains a highly respected humanitarian in many of the territories that he visited during his expeditions in Africa.

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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
David Livingstone
Topics: Dedication

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
David Livingstone
Topics: Dedication

I do not know how the great loving Father will bring out light at last, but he knows, and he will do it.
David Livingstone
Topics: Mystery

Fear God and work hard.
David Livingstone
Topics: Purpose

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
David Livingstone

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
David Livingstone
Topics: Determination, Progress

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.
David Livingstone

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
Topics: Decisions, Achievement

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