Compass Quotes

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.

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

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

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

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 reach.

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

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

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

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

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.

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

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

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.