You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely.

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

It seems to me that we would be well advised to explore this land.

-- Born around 970 in Norse Iceland

If I could, I would go further.

-- Born around 1460 in Sines

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

-- Born in Genoa in 1451

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

-- Born in 1728 to a Yorkshire farm family

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

-- Born in 1728 to a Yorkshire farm family

We have traversed more than one hundred thousand li of immense water spaces and have beheld in the ocean huge waves like mountains rising sky-high.

-- Born in 1371 into a Muslim family in Yunnan