"Desire sets our compass, but real life steers…" — Mitch Albom
"Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course."
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421 Quotes by Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom has 421 quotes on this site.
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
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I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on…
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that…
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I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp…
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the…
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach…
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Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of…
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…
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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my…
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You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
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I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the…
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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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