Best 99 quotes in «compass quotes» category

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 ...

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Conscience is a man's compass.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

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

Families are the compass that guide us.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I have an excellent internal compass.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

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

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.