Best 99 quotes in «compass quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

Families are the compass that guide us.

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.

Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

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

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the few that were meant for me. Not any destination picked at random; I had to head for those that summoned me with a passion, for they were the ones that gave meaning to my life. I had to ignore the warnings of those who would tell me why I couldn't do what I wanted to do.

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.

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

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

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

I have an excellent internal compass.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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

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 understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

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

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

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

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

My inside self and my outside self used to match.  A compass needle pointed true north.  Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

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.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

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

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

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

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.