Best 99 quotes in «compass quotes» category

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

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

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.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

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

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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

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

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

Your gut is your inner compass.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

Bearings You are my dear compass, who knows no way but true, so when I'm lost and drifting, I find myself in you. Yet when I ask you, fearful, if I should set you free, imagine my surprise to hear you take your north from me.

Breath deeply, this breath is your life. Enjoy the moment, this moment is your life. Love with your heart, let your heart be the compass of your life.

Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.

Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

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

Compass rules direction; Decision rules life!

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true.

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ...

Well, it's nice to know that the Trolls made it this far south,' Ulath said. 'I'd hate to have to go looking for them.' 'Their Gods were guiding them, Ulath,' Tynian pointed out. 'You've never talked with the Troll-Gods, I see,' Ulath laughed. 'Their sense of direction is a little vague - probably because their compass only has two directions on it.' 'Oh?' 'North and not-north. It makes finding places a little difficult.

Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

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.

The way destiny forgot To etch home on her palms, The broken compass Also forgot to point towards north.

We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, "Does this show respect for God People Self?

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

...You are my compass star." And he was hers.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

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

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

Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.

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.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

Families are the compass that guide us.

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

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

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.

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.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill.  It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

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