Compass Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Conscience is a man's compass.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.