David Livingstone - Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

Topics

Citations

Blaikie, William Garden. The Personal Life of David Livingstone. John Murray, 1880, p. 130.

Related Quotes

Margaret Thatcher

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Ralph Bunche

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Muammar Qaddafi

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Kevin Costner

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Gregory I

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

Gregory the Great. The Pope had sent a contingent of monks to bring Christianity to the people of England. However, the monks became immediately discouraged given the primitive state of the inhabitants, the climate, and the dangerous seas to voyage over. They asked permission of the Pope to withdraw. Gregory refused but sent Augustine of Canterbury to lead the contingent.

Saqib Saleem

Be patient and always keep persevering.

Shawn Michaels

The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up.

Harrison Ford

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

Glen A. Larson

If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course.

Alice Paul

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

David Rose

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

John Gresham Machen

Stay the course.

Jim Valvano

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

Dean Ornish

I never give up hope.

Barbara Cook

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

Jack Nicklaus

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Drew Roy

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

Kurt Busch

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

Ashley Tisdale

I never give up on things.

Karen O

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Julian Bond

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.

Newt Gingrich

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Steve Scalise

Never give up on something you believe in.

Bobby Sands

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

About the Author

David Livingstone

Born: March 19, 1813
Died: May 1, 1873
Nationality: British
Profession: Explorer

Biography

David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. He had a mythic 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 British commercial and colonial expansion.

Related Authors

Christopher McCandless, Bear Grylls, Ernest Shackleton, Daniel Boone, Christopher Columbus, Jeff Rich, Jacques Cousteau, David Crockett

David Livingstone Quotes