Quote#Success & Failure
If I have a mission, I say "If " for the sake of those who doubt, but…
Quote byLouis Riel · 1844–1885
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address on sentencing (1885).
English (original)
If I have a mission, I say "If " for the sake of those who doubt, but for my part it means "Since," since I have a mission, I cannot fulfil my mission as long as I am looked upon as an insane being-human being, at the moment that I begin to ascend that scale, I begin to succeed.
— Louis Riel
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