Compass Quotations

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

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

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

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.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

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 nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'

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.

If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you...

Knowledge for a writer is like a compass for a sailor.

He is the foundation and the moral compass for our youth.

From this point forward, innovation will be the compass by which the company sets its direction,

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.

I was trying to maintain my ethical compass and do what was right. But in pursuit of what was right for the group, I fell into a trap.

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

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.

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

Families are the compass that guide us.

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

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

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

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

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

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.

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

Follow your compass, not your clock.

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

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

We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee.

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

We would like to expand our presence to other points of the compass east and west.

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.

Whenever we asked Judge Roberts basic questions about his moral compass and his life experience, he declined to answer.

We applaud Compass Group North America for its leadership. Its commitment, and a similar decision by major food retailer Wal-Mart, is a significant step toward transformation of the seafood market in ways that support sustainable fisheries and healthy ocean ecosystems.

We know where our moral compass directs us.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness -- a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. The mind grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty ingredients, grows, by certain necessity, to their stature. Scarce anything so convinces me of the capacity of the human intellect for indefinite expansion in the different stages of its being, as this power of enlarging itself to the compass of surrounding emergencies.

Continental Airlines illustrates how IT initiatives are driven by the business need for remote user productivity improvements and IT requirements for simplification and cost reduction. Expand easily overcomes performance hurdles that left unchecked can severely limit the successful implementation of IT initiatives and impact bottom-line results. Our Compass was strategically designed to enable the network and power the end user.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Compass Group is proud to embrace a sustainable-seafood policy that will support the health of our oceans. When we learned about the significant impact that our purchasing shift could make, it was clear that this was the right thing to do.

This has been a highly regrettable episode for Compass Group.

This has been a highly regrettable episode for Compass group. The board is determined that Compass group should meet the highest ethical and governance standards and is taking all necessary steps to ensure that this is the case.

Our compass is pointing in the right way and if it continues to point in this way, there should be no reason why we should even discuss (that), ... very unlikely.

Why change something that's working? ... We desperately need our officers. I find it shocking that Chief Compass would consider doing away with COPS when just a little while ago he was talking about how successful it's been in reducing crime in the developments.

Web applications are particularly susceptible to high-latency WAN links, which can translate into dismal user performance. Although the flexibility and innovation Web services promise are attractive, the implementation costs and poor user performance can make realization of these promises difficult. With the Expand Compass Platform, our customers such as Continental Airlines can accelerate the performance of their Web-based applications to encourage user adoption and satisfaction, while simultaneously removing the cost of upgrading WAN links.

This is at a scale that is really shocking. There is a certain kind of arrogance that in the past you might not have had. They were so supremely confident that there didn't seem to be any kind of moral compass here.

Instead he remains in the same loop. It takes a certain kind of self-confidence to shake up your comfort level and bring in new people who might challenge you. Bush has his inner compass and doesn't want to disturb it. That's what denial can do to a man.

About one-third of our initial program was devoted to fishing-related activities, another third was hunting related and the other third dealt with other outdoor activities, such as canoeing, map reading and compass reading. We thought we'd get a more balanced and bigger audience that way.

You throw out that Donovan McNabb is starting the game with a 95.2 quarterback rating and expect people to understand it, ... There's not a human being alive who could really explain to you what quarterback ratings mean. Pythagoras couldn't, either. I shouldn't need a compass and protractor to rate these guys.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night

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

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.

The girls were fascinated to learn how many inventions and technological advancements came from ancient China. The development of writing, the process of printing, and the production of paper from trees all originated in ancient China. Gunpowder, the umbrella and the compass are just a few examples of things that were invented.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

These are just weird times, but then the last 20 years have been kind of weird for me. It's just a matter of doing what you can. You just have to play the cards you're holding and letting your audience know where you are. I've been on my own pretty much for the last 20 years. I've just been touring and you could call the albums that I've been making my calling cards. I haven't even had a label until the last two or three years. Then Compass Records came along. They're out of Nashville and they liked the stuff, so I guess they could see some kind of potential in me. They decided to get involved and I like them. They're nice people. These days, every battle won is like hand-to-hand combat.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Each result has action steps to back them up. The action steps are like a map. If you us them like a compass you will never get lost, and you will reach your destination.

They had a plain, old round magnetic compass and a watch and they used landmarks on the ground. They did it with skill and familiarity with basic flight instruments. They were really some amazing pilots.

I believe I was extremely greedy. I've lost my moral compass and did things I regret.

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it.

Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.

...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

I have an excellent internal compass.

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

He that has patience may compass anything.

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

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

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. The things that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened of, are not necessarily the things that we need to fear.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

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

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

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

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

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

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

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

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

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

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

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.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

I probably suffered from ADHD, but they weren't so quick to diagnose it back then. For PE, they'd drop you in the woods with a compass and a pack of matches. It gave you confidence that you could rely on yourself.

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

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

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

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