75 result(s) for Christopher Columbus Quotes.
"It is easy to discover what has already been found, but a true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indians, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change."
"All the gold does not change the grass in bread."
"To the best of my ability, I have never wasted time on fantasy land; instead, I have concentrated on the weak topics of this world."
"They claim to praise me, but they devour and destroy me. They prey on me like ravenous vultures."
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"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."
"It is the purpose of a wise man to keep away from the land, lest he shock the savages who don't understand his ideas."
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
"I saw some lords of that land, and I will have them to be very well disposed towards the Queen, and they bear her flags."
"I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours."
"For this were all those great captains created, who earned realms and worlds, and plunged their swords into the tormented bowels of those who would not receive them."
"Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams!"
"It was the Lord who put into my mind I could sail from here to the Indies. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit."
"Gold is a wonderful thing! Whoever owns it can purchase all that he desires."
"Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities."
"With a handful of men, one can steal cattle, but with 100, cannot take a fortress."
"Sailed from sunrise to sunset."
"Each man is a god in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."
"Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped."
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"Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams."
"Let us rejoice as we set eyes on land."
"Mine eyes have seen these things."
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
"It is better to be in chains with friends than to be in a garden with strangers."
"The sea will grant tracks to learn of the treasures I have retrieved."
"The rewards of wealth and land come only to those who make the effort."
"Even the moon gets lost in the sky."
"Life is a voyage."
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
"Sail on, sail on, and on!"
"I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely."
"Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus."
"You can never estimate the distance you have traveled until you find yourself standing right beside the goal."
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"I trust that there is no one so without understanding as to expect good and all will be good, like the devil, so as to wish to go away from here to heaven with our Lord without dying."
"All the trees were as different from ours as day from night, and so was the fruit, the herbage, the stones and everything else."
"The working of great things is not accomplished by strength, by skill, or by physical dexterity, but by knowing the way and the destination."
"I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose customs and religion are very contrary to ours."
"I observed no great protest on the part of the Indians, for a belief was held in common by most of them that we had descended from heaven."
"And the land is so rich that although I have told Your Highnesses how large are the mines of gold and of other metals, of precious stones and of pearls, still I have not said anything about the trade. It is the best temperate climate in the world, and there are many ports."
"Gold is most excellent; gold constitutes treasure, and he who has it does all he wants in the world, and can even lift souls up to paradise."
"They can very easily be made Christians, for they seem to have no religion."
"Gold is most excellent; gold constitutes treasure, and he who has it does all he wants in this world, and can even lift souls up to paradise."
"Gold is most excellent; gold constitutes treasure, and he who has it does all he wants in this world."
"I saw morsels of gold in the first island that I visited."
"Life is short, and there is much work to do."
"You can never become a truly good person unless you have studied many years to become a good person by working your hardest."
"Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent."
"I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a westward route."
"I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent."
"In truth, I am very sorry that mine cannot be so ardent as to serve to yield an abduction."
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
"To love is to be loved."
"Strengthen your patient heart, and if you have determined to die rather than endure patience, fly to arms, gather your fleet, and seize the first favorable opportunity for showing what you are."
"Tomorrow morning there will be no man with a great enough stock of arms for two leagues' journey inland."
"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."
"Sail on, sail on, and on."
"I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence."
"It is easy to discover what another has discovered before."
"I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone."
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
"I know that they will say so many times that I was convicted of the enterprise, which was true, and I airborne to the expectation of the reason of the third voyage."
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
"If I return home to Spain in the complete disappointment of this matter, the cause will be established and followed."
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return quickly to your Highnesses."
"The air softens the spirit and augments feelings of tenderness."
"Allowing the public to see statues and paintings is a way of allowing them to gaze on sacred things, offering them an easier way to access the divine."
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