Compass Quotes

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

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.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.