A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

I pray that we might not outlive our usefulness.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

Fear God and work hard.

This route will serve to certify that no other sources of the Nile can come from the south without being seen by me. No one will cut me out after this exploration is accomplished; and may the good Lord of all help me to show myself one of His stout-hearted servants, an honour to my children, and, perhaps, to my country and race.

Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

There is nothing small in the service of God.