Top 496 Compass Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
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.
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].
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
This day I breathed first: time is come round,
And where I did begin there shall I end;
My life is run his compass.
I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'
Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.
I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.
Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.
Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.
Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.
There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream
Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.
Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
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.
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.
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.
Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.
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.
It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.
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?
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.
Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more.
In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass.
Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the 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 we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
