Compass Quotes

• Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Strength, Believe

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Gerald Henry Rendall (1907). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English”

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• Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

  Stephen Covey

  Live Your Life, Clock

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• Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

  John C. Maxwell

  Stars, Journey, Hiking

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Dec 26, 2014

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• Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

  Brad Henry

  Family, Inspiration, Comfort

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• A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Heart, Leader, Influence

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• Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

  Peter Block

  Educational, Vision, Maps

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• Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Lying, Inspiration, Heart

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• Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

  John Ruskin

  Sailing, Aim

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• Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

  Steve Pavlina

  Enemy, Needs, Grows

  "The Courage to Live Consciously". www.stevepavlina.com. October 27, 2004.

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• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Conscience is a man's compass.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Men, Express Yourself

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• 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

  Art, Inspiration, Eye

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pavel Preiss (1982). “Michelangelo: drawings”

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• Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Basketball, Finding Yourself, Talent

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

  Aaron Sorkin

  Inspirational, Graduation, Hurt

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass.

  James David Manning

  Life, Ocean, Heart

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• In this world you've a soul for a compass
  And a heart for a pair of wings
  There's a star on the far horizon
  Rising bright in an azure sky
  For the rest of the time that you're given
  Why walk when you can fly?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Song: Why Walk When You Can Fly?, 1994

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

  Edward Kennedy

  Perseverance, Real, Opportunity

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• If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Heart, My Heart, Ifs

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• The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

  Roger Zelazny

  Men, Sight, Saint

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Goal, Needs

  Interview with Charlie Day, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

  Joy Page

  Knowing, Intuition

  "Graduation Speech: Grads, Rely on Your Compass Going Forth". www.sctimes.com. May 28, 2014.

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• This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

  Edward Kennedy

  Children, Real, Opportunity

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• 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

  Heart, Soul, Peaceful

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  W. S. Merwin

  Hands

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