Top 1200 Moral Compass Quotes & Sayings

Denouncing Nazis is the easiest thing in the world: All it requires is a modicum of historical perspective and a working moral compass.

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.

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

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

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

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.

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

It is time to reclaim our nation's moral compass.

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.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

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

Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

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].

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

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

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Democracy needs a moral compass.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

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.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

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

Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

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

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.

We need to elect leaders who have a strong moral compass. Leaders who are honest, straightforward, and tough - with a love of justice and fair play.

The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

My moral compass is strong.

There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral 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?'

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.

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

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

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

Trump shows no philosophical or moral compass and is so divisive that his negative ratings are sky high.

A Brexit Britain that will navigate its way in the world without a moral compass.

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excitement and a never-ending flood of heightened sensations.

The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is. They get it out when they are making decisions. It's their guide. But not only do you have to have a moral compass and take it out of your pocket, it has to have a true north.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.