Compass Quotes

303 quotes by 264 authors

We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major… — H. Bentley Glass
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures… — Robert Boyle
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold… — Amby Burfoot
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… — Jonathan Swift
Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because… — Caroline Myss
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this… — Patricia Schroeder
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness… — Saint Augustine
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And… — Daniel Boone
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,… — Charles Dickens
A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart. — Howard G. Hendricks
On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass. — James David Manning
But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock. — Aldous Huxley
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines ! — Ben Stiller
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilizationâ€™s anchor. We are the compass for humanityâ€™s conscience. — Harry Belafonte
Every time you consider a job, you have to check in with your inner compass and say, â€˜Does this fit in with how I see… — Tom Hiddleston
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… — Shelby Foote
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of… — Laurence Olivier
My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the… — Alyson Stoner
I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret. — Andrew Fastow

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