Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"Live your life by a compass, not a clock."
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Compass
84 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Julio Cortazar
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"A society without religion is like a vessel without compass."
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed."
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"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
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"Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy."
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"Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass."
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"From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man."
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"Conscience is a man's compass."
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"The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress."
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"...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it."
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"Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!"
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"Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel."
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"I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed."
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"Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction."
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"Follow your compass, not your clock."
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"Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
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"I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me."
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"Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will."
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"Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall."
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"So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman."
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"Your gut is your inner compass."
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"Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere."
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"I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass."
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