Top 64 Life Compass Quotes
#1. Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.
Joan D. Chittister
#2. I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don't want someone offering advice, unless they have been to hell and back with a map and a compass.
Shannon L. Alder
#3. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?
Haruki Murakami
#5. I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
Lana Del Rey
#6. If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children.
Louise Penny
#7. Inside each of us there is a marvelous compass which greatly favors life, freedom and vitality.
Bryant McGill
#8. Nurturing gratitude is preparation for the worst of days, the building of a compass that will be necessary to get back to life after the deep sorrow abates.
Hugh Hewitt
#9. With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.
Ernest Rhys
#10. I want to feel what pressures other people feel. Experience the world guided by someone else's moral compass. See and hear and taste with senses formed in a completely different mold than mine. I want to see what it's like to live someone else's lie ... Someone else's life.
Michele Jaffe
#11. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.
David Levithan
#12. Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#13. There I am in my younger days, star gazing
Painting picture perfect maps
Of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles I should have seen.
Indigo Girls
#14. The life-cycle valuation model is uniquely useful to investors seeking excess returns as well as to corporate managements and boards that need a valuation compass to guide decision making. Figure
Bartley J Madden
#15. There's never been a map. Only a compass whose dial always knows where it's pointing.
Fennel Hudson
#16. But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Aldous Huxley
#17. A heart beats seventy-two times a minute. The blood that flows within the essence of life also becomes a compass that navigates through the uncharted waters of romance and eventually arrives at the port called LOVE..
Gene Needham
#18. Your heart is the compass, Your soul is the journey...
Andulairah
#19. What allows people to have such a strong inner compass, a North Star that steers them through life according to the dictates of their deepest values and purposes?
Daniel Goleman
#20. The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.
Martha Beck
#21. New Testament scholar Dr. Gordon Fee said that life is a wilderness, and a compass doesn't help very much. A map certainly doesn't help because you have to know where you are for starters. What you need in a place you've never been before is a guide. Jesus becomes the Guide to the Father's house.
Mark Batterson
#23. He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.
David Levithan
#24. The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path.
Thomas G. Bandy
#25. Don't sail through life, without an anchor, a captain and a compass
Sonya Withrow
#26. But I like business,' said Pancks, getting on a little faster. 'What's a man made for?' 'For nothing else?' said Clennam. Pancks put the counter question, 'What else?' It packed up, in the smallest compass, a weight that had rested on Clennam's life; and he made no answer.
Charles Dickens
#27. Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.
Marie Corelli
#28. Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.
Charles Martin
#29. The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning ... the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event ... both coming together shall represent a Human Being ... the intersection of life and consciousness ...
Tom DeLonge
#30. Human's moral compass doesn't work yet
in worlds where the instinct navigates life.
Toba Beta
#31. During the long period which elapsed between the Egyptian and the Babylonian servitudes, the hopes as well as fears of the Jews appear to have been confined within the narrow compass of the present life.
Edward Gibbon
#32. 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
#33. Every person, I have come to believe, has a moment or a place in life when all four points of the compass converge, from when or where their life finally takes--for better or for worse--its fated course.
Peter Geye
#34. Your faith provides you focus and vision for your life. It is your true north compass and GPS of self-awareness and self-management. Your faith is your lens to focus on how your talents, skills, gifts, and abilities will allow you to live on purpose
Thomas Narofsky
#35. Without wisdom, man is as the wild ass's colt, running hither and thither, wasting strength which might be profitably employed. Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless waste of life; without it he is a derelict vessel, the sport of winds and waves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#36. The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.
Shannon L. Alder
#38. Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
Mitch Albom
#39. It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings.
Alan Bishop
Arthur C. Clarke
#40. She was my compass. I was her legend. We were the rivers and the lakes, the highways and the back roads, the mountains and the borders. I finally knew where I was. Charlotte was my You Are Here point on the map of life.
Julia Kent
#41. 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.
Lou Reed
#42. Breath deeply, this breath is your life.
Enjoy the moment, this moment is your life.
Love with your heart, let your heart be the compass of your life.
Debasish Mridha
#43. This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.
Doc Childre
#45. When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.
Erwin McManus
#46. It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul's purest desire, its dream for your life.
Deepak Chopra
#47. To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
#49. Still, all it really took was one alteration in my life, a change which appeared insignificant and unlikely at the time, nonetheless it has affected my outlook completely, turning it around the compass of my life.
Andrew James Pritchard
#50. But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life
no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that
what it's right to do.
L.M. Montgomery
#51. Because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
Alan Paton
#52. All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I'm having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. Most times, the worst of situations can become a compass to the best of situations
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#54. 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
#55. No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.
Rod McKuen
#56. I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
Adam Braun
#57. 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.
Edmund Burke
#58. Il faut suivre ta boussole [You must follow your compass], as we say in French. Do what feels right to you, then figure out how to earn a living at the same time.
Jeffrey Alford
#59. On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass.
James David Manning
#60. You will find the path of life when your inner compass is ready.
Debasish Mridha
#61. Your Life Purpose is your North star in the dark night as you navigate your canoe. It is the compass by which your soul directs your life journey.
Itzhak Beery
#62. [My wife] is a great student of the Bible. Her life is ruled by the Bible more than any person I've ever known. That's her rule book, her compass.
Billy Graham
#63. 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
#64. Gnani's [The enlightened one's] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people's sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.
Dada Bhagwan
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