67+ Best Compass Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Compass is a device for finding direction with a needle that can move easily and that always points to magnetic north. Profoundly inspirational compass quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.

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Famous Compass Quotes

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

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. Jim Roh

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

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

Watching the wonder of a dewdrop clinging on a tree leaf in the early morning sunlight can give us an ethereal thrill and at one time awaken the elapsed compass of our inner child. Erik Pevernagie

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

I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples. Elif Shafak

A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it. Aaron Sorkin

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

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved confined within the compass of one person. Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him. Clementine von Radics

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

She held it against her heart. Where else would one need a compass more than in this place? Delia Owens

You don’t throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm. Matshona Dhliwayo

People see by the light of their own stars. Some nights the stars waver in obscuring mists. I steer a straight course by my own compass. and delight in the mysteries of misguiding stars. Chris Ernest Nelson

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It’s as true as any compass. Dean Koontz

Text me everything, all the things. It might take me a while to reply. But I will reply, Haze. I swear. I want to hear from you. You’re kind of my compass. I don’t want to lose myself in this world. You’re my road map home. Brittainy C. Cherry

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

If the compass that I hold in my hand is driven by the agendas that I craft in my head, that compass is something more like a windmill erected in a place where the wind never stops blowing. Craig D. Lounsbrough

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh

Being vulnerable allows your heart to find it’s way. The path is scary; the path unknown. Still, the heart’s compass never sways. In the end, love finds you and any doubt felt melts away. James M Stoffel

Creativity is like a compass, each one has its own, and all point to the North. Efrat Cybulkiewicz

A strikingly large number of our settlements are oriented to the west and, where circumstances permit, relocate in a westward direction. The east stands for lost causes. Especially at the time that the continent of America was being colonized, it was noticeable that the townships spread to the west even was their eastern districts were falling apart. W.G. Sebald

Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh

When you spend time of the bridge of a ship or in a coxswain’s station with a large compass in front, you can easily develop the impression that the compass is directing the ship rather than merely reflecting its direction. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius

Your sensuality is your internal guidance. It should always dictate your next move. Lebo Grand

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

He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him. Clementine von Radics

Praise God for his compassion of constant love. Lailah Gifty Akita

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

No matter how crazy it may feel, I found that following my intuitive hunch is always my best bet. When we are grounded, it will never steer us in the wrong direction. Acting as our guiding light and divine compass. So don’t question it. Trust it. Robin S. Baker

You have to follow your moral compass it’s a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong. Cailee Spaeny

Quando você vive no mar, você não precisa de um destino. Você mal precisa de uma bússola. Natalia Avila

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

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life. Shannon L. Alder

Your inner knowing is your only true compass. Joy Page

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

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

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. Drake

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

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

You don’t throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm. Matshona Dhliwayo

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. Tabatha Coffey

Character that is fruit producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions. Criss Jami

She held it against her heart. Where else would one need a compass more than in this place? Delia Owens

When kindness is your compass, you will find guidance to the right path in this life and the next. Stewart Stafford

Your personal values are the best compass for your unique journey. Chris Hutchinson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It’s as true as any compass. Dean Koontz

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. Douglas Macarthur

Creativity is like a compass, each one has its own, and all point to the North. Efrat Cybulkiewicz

There’s no shame in changing direction.  Lynn Austin

Don’t allow others to direct your ethical resolutions, rather navigate with your own moral compass so you can see the beacon of your own conscious. Husam Wafaei

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. Dr. Stephen Covey

Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there’s no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end. Keri Hulme

When kindness is your compass, you will find guidance to the right path in this life and the next. Stewart Stafford

I don’t need to see the trail to know you’re at the end of it. My grandfather’s compass may not work, but mine is still true. Diana Peterfreund

Your decisions today, both big and small, determine the direction your life will take tomorrow. Craig Groeschel

“She Beatrice alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark  what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard. Dan Simmons

Democracy needs a moral compass. Jill Stein

You are your own vehicular machinery that ought to propel yourself under guidance of the compass of the Holy Spirit of God. Don’t go off the track! Israelmore Ayivor

Much of the world’s moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north. Dennis Prager

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

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass. Marcia Fudge