David Livingstone
David Livingstone
David Livingstonewas a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth19 March 1813
CityBlantyre, Scotland
David Livingstone quotes about
It's pretty standard for a new CEO to clean house,
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
I am immortal till my work is accomplished
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
This generation can only reach this generation.
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's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.