Profoundly inspirational compass quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
Famous Compass Quotes
Though pleas’d to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. – Matthew Green
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. – James Agee
She kept her trusty compass with her all times to guide her through each new twist and turn on her journey. – Queenisms
The compass opened, if I may so express myself, the universe. – Charles de Montesquieu
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
Though fortune’s malice overthrows my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. – William Shakespeare
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
Follow your compass, not your clock. – Andrea Jung
Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making? – Craig D. Lounsbrough
I poured a compass into my coffee, to give the flavor some direction. – Jarod Kintz
So, I come back again to the condition that the Golden Rule, if one adopts it, is a difficult master to serve. The ship’s captain will not throw the compass overboard because the wind blows fair and the day is funny. For he knows, from the experiences of the ocean’s instability, that the danger days of storm are always just ahead. So, the compass must always be handy and obedience to it must always be loyal. And so, with the Golden Rulle—the compass must be ever at hand through life’s journey. It will see us through trying times. And perhaps the most trying of all times comes when success is riding high and we may be tempted to throw the compass overboard. It is then we must remember that all good days in human life come from the mastery of the days of trouble that are forever recurrent. – James Cash Penney
If my heart was a compass in will point towards you. – Hussein Nishah
I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer directed. – Diane Wilson
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass. – John Ruskin
Ones vision is not a road map but a compass. – Peter Block
My body is a compass and it does not lie. – Terry Tempest Williams
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
The great thing in the world isn’t so much where we stand. As in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go. – Julie Connor
Develop your own compass and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt. – Aaron Sorkin
Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall. – Stephen Covey
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. – William Ellery Channing
On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass. – James David Manning
Life is a voyage that’s homeward bound. Stay on the right path. He that has patience may compass anything. – Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Your inner knowing is your only true compass. – Joy Page
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 compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony. – Heinrich Heine
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
In this world, you’ve a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings. – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy. – Barbara Marx Hubbard
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
My heart is a compass, and it always leads me back to you. – A. Zavarelli
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. – Richard Steele
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
So let your heart, sweetheart, be your compass when you’re lost, and you should follow it wherever it may go. – Lady Antebellum
The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination. – Claude C. Hopkins
Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you. – Mary Anne Radmacher
You don’t throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm. – Matshona Dhliwayo
I am free to wander. Heading in the right direction. Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R Tolkien
Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course. – Mitch Albom
Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations. – Ikechukwu Izuakor
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
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
Let your heart be your compass, your mind your map, your soul your guide and you will never get lost. – Ritu Ghatourey
Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It’s as true as any compass. – Dean Koontz
