"Having an exciting destination is like setting a……" — Daniel Boone
"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"
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29 Quotes by Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone has 29 quotes on this site.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in…
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and…
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live…
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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More Compass Quotes
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one of 303 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
— Joseph Addison
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
— Michael Biehn
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I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just…
— Michael Bloomberg
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
— Steve Chabot
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
— William Ellery Channing
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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