Best quotes about Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus famous quotes

Best quotes about Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa, under the sponsorship of the Catholic monarchs of Spain, he sailed four times across the Atlantic Ocean. These journeys and his endeavors to establish states on the island of Hispaniola initiated the permanent European colonization of the New World. May his references inspire you to be courageous in the pursuit of your dreams.

"I have always read that the world, both land, and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south."

Christopher Columbus

"The crew of the Caravel also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs."

Christopher Columbus

"A hundred Castellanos are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand."

Christopher Columbus

"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."

Christopher Columbus

"And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts."

Christopher Columbus

"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."

Christopher Columbus

"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."

Christopher Columbus

"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. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him."

Christopher Columbus

motivational quotes Christopher Columbus

motivational quotes Christopher Columbus

"When there is such land, there should be profitable things without number."

Christopher Colombus

"The sea will give every man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams from home."

Christopher Colombus

"I went to sea from an early age and have continued to live in the sea to this day. Wherever anyone has sailed, there I have sailed."

Christopher Colombus

"I have come to believe that this is a powerful continent hitherto unknown."

Christopher Colombus

"You don't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

Christopher Colombus

"Thank God ."

Christopher Colombus

"By overcoming all obstacles and all distractions, one can arrive without fail at his goal or his destination."

Christopher Colombus

inspirational quotes Christopher Columbus

inspirational quotes Christopher Columbus

"It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God."

Christopher Columbus

"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, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz."

Christopher Columbus

"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."

Christopher Columbus

"Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities."

Christopher Columbus

"No one should be afraid to undertake a task."

Christopher Colombus

"Life has more imagination than we have in our dreams."

Christopher Colombus

"For the execution of the trip to India, I did not use intelligence, mathematics or maps."

Christopher Colombus

"Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those who are enlightened before others are doomed to pursue that light in spite of others."

Christopher Colombus

"Thus, God gives victory to those who follow his way over apparent impossibilities."

Christopher Colombus

"It's easy to find out what someone else has already discovered."

Christopher Colombus

"I tell you India is like that, now I am setting my course."

Christopher Colombus

"Goals are simply tools for focusing your energy in positive directions, these can be altered as your priorities change, new ones added and others dropped."

Christopher Colombus