Compass Sayings and Quotes

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Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

Matthew Green



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

James Agee



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

James David Manning



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Life is a voyage that's homeward bound. Stay on the right path. He that has patience may compass anything.

François Duc De La Rochefoucauld



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Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

Joy Page



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Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.    

Henry David Thoreau



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

Heinrich Heine



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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W. S. Merwin



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

Sir Walter Scott



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

Ben Stiller



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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.

Stephen Graham



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Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.    

Charles Goodnight



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In this world, you’ve a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

Mary Chapin Carpenter



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Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy.

Barbara Marx Hubbard



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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.

Rudolf Arnheim



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My heart is a compass, and it always leads me back to you.

A. Zavarelli



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When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Richard Steele



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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.    

Umberto Eco



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Then, my queen, in silence sad trip we after night's shade. We the globe can compass soon, swifter than the wand'ring moon.

William Shakespeare



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So let your heart, sweetheart, be your compass when you’re lost, and you should follow it wherever it may go.    

Lady Antebellum



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

Claude C. Hopkins



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Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

Mary Anne Radmacher



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You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

Matshona Dhliwayo



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I am free to wander. Heading in the right direction. Not all those who wander are lost.    

J.R.R Tolkien



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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

Mitch Albom



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Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations.    

Ikechukwu Izuakor



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A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.

Idowu Koyenikan



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

John Gay



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Let your heart be your compass, your mind your map, your soul your guide and you will never get lost.

Ritu Ghatourey



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Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

Dean Koontz


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She kept her trusty compass with her all times to guide her through each new twist and turn on her journey.

Queenisms



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The compass opened, if I may so express myself, the universe.

Charles de Montesquieu



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

William Shakespeare



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Follow your compass, not your clock.

Andrea Jung



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I poured a compass into my coffee, to give the flavor some direction.    

Jarod Kintz



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If my heart was a compass in will point towards you.

Hussein Nishah



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

Diane Wilson



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

John Ruskin



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Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

Peter Block



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My body is a compass and it does not lie.

Terry Tempest Williams



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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.

Michelangelo



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The great thing in the world isn't so much where we stand. As in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes



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Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.    

Julie Connor



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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Aaron Sorkin



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Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

Stephen Covey



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

William Ellery Channing