Compass Quotes

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

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

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

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

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.

My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.

If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

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

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.