Best 99 quotes in «compass quotes» category

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

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

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

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

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

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

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.

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.

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

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

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

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

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

Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

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

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

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

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.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.

The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

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

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

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

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.

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 inner knowing is your only true compass.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.