Compass Quotes
Lines on guidance, conscience, and finding true direction.
These quotes use the compass as both instrument and metaphor, from a literal warning that a rusty nail can sway a compass off course to conscience as our inner guide. See related lines in Guidance quotes.
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
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It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Direction Quotes
My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
Emotion Quotes
It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.
My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
Exploration Quotes
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
Popularity isn't my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood... that's what counts.
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
Denouncing Nazis is the easiest thing in the world: All it requires is a modicum of historical perspective and a working moral compass.
Guidance Quotes
After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.
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One modern quote describes a moral compass swinging left except on gratuitous violence, a reminder that moral direction can be complicated. Explore more in our Direction quotes.
