Compass Quotes - page 6

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better. (Gary Wolf)
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. View quote
Michelle Ryan
I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass. View quote
Margo MacDonald
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'. View quote
Sam Brownback
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. View quote
Tabatha Coffey
Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor. View quote
Groucho Marx
I think has been invaluable to me in terms of a moral compass – of some idea of what's acceptable and what is not acceptable. View quote
Alex Salmond
To reconcile the gentleman with himself, it must be imagined that he determined the human character by the points of the compass. The truth was, that all men having power ought to be distrusted, to a certain degree. View quote
James Madison
There is a new wave of change all around us, and if we set our compass true, we will reach our destination - not merely victory for our Party, but renewal for our nation. View quote
Ted Kennedy
The advantage of placing responsibility for the complete coal-getting task squarely on the shoulders of a single, small, face-to-face group which experiences the entire cycle of operations within the compass of its membership. [And furthermore], for each participant the task has total significance and dynamic closure. View quote
Eric Trist
To make up for its lack of a moral compass, the British public is prey to sudden gusts of kitschy sentimentality followed by vehement outrage, encouraged by the cheap and cynical sensationalism of its press. Spasms of self-righteousness are its substitute for the moral life. (Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist))
While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in. The compass always points to Terrapin. View quote
Robert Hunter
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass. View quote
Colin Powell
Histories of the world omitted China if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly forgot it and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Oh please. No ethic lectures from you, you cheap carny hustler... [Y]ou since you sold your moral compass for dimes long ago. View quote
Mike Huckabee
The best aphorisms are pointed expressions of the results of observation, experience, and reflection. They are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs. View quote
William R. Alger
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
We have lost our moral compass completely, and unless we find it, we're going to lose our civilization. View quote
John Rhys-Davies
Despite the separation of church and state in the U. S. Constitution, a Christian politician facing a conundrum may ask, "What would Jesus do?” or WWJD. A transhumanist politician not only relies on a moral compass but also seeks the best solutions with the help of science and technology in addition to formal and informal politics. View quote
Newton Lee
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. View quote
Edmund Burke
You survive by having your fear compass calibrated correctly. Our compass is off now because we're being told to be afraid of everything. (Michael Moore)
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. View quote
Michael Moore
THE fountain's low singing is heard on the wind, Like a melody bringing sweet fancies to mind; Some to grieve, some to gladden: around them they cast The hopes of the morrow, the dreams of the past. Away in the distance is heard the vast sound, From the streets of the city that compass it round, Like the echo of mountains, or ocean's deep call; Yet that fountain's low singing is heard over all. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is. View quote
Lou Reed
Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam. View quote
Khaled Hosseini