Compass Quotes

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

Conscience is a man's compass.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

I probably suffered from ADHD, but they weren't so quick to diagnose it back then. For PE, they'd drop you in the woods with a compass and a pack of matches. It gave you confidence that you could rely on yourself.

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

Families are the compass that guide us.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

He that has patience may compass anything.

How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.

You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.