Compass Quotes

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

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.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Conscience is a man's compass.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path.

Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

Families are the compass that guide us.

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

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.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

My body is a compass - and it does not lie.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.

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

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

He that has patience may compass anything.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

How do you make a compass? Uhhh hmmm so if I was a compass how would I make myself?

This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.