North Star Quotes

• Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it's always constant.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stars, Love Is, World

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• Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Stars, Book, Anchors

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• There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, Debate, Should

  Source: time.com

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• Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Believe, Sight

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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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• If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

  Steve Case

  Stars, Believe, Passion

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• Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Justice, Fixed

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• She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.

  David Gemmell

  Stars, Heart, Destiny

  Stella Gemmell, David Gemmell (2009). “Troy: Fall Of Kings”, p.376, Random House

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• The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
  Star, to serve as a guiding point.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Function, Ideals

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• You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.

  Tom Waits

  Stars, Blue, Feelings

  Song: Little Trip to Heaven, Album: Closing Time, 2006

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• True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows.  Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion.  It turns your boat in circles.  Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.

  Mary Pipher

  Dream, Stars, Blow

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.229, Penguin

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• Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

  Martha Beck

  Friends, Stars, Essence

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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• What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.

  Robert Breault

  Mom, Mother, Stars

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• It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

  Bono

  Stars, Rocks, Culture

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• To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Administration, Excellent

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
  forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
  You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Destiny, Thinking

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.18, Rodale

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• Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.

  Tim Cook

  Jobs, Stars, Life Is Too Short

  "Best and worst of 2015 commencement address season". www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2015.

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• We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

  Kevin Costner

  Stars, Bumps, Life Is

  "Kevin Costner Talks MCFARLAND, USA, What Makes a Memorable Sports Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2015.

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• If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stars, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Believe, People

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• Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different ways of showing it, and different representations of it. Whether it's love shown to a stranger, love to a sibling, your child, your parents, your partner.

  Ben Harper

  Stars, Children, Sibling

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Stars, Truth

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Anger, Speak

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

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• I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

  Christopher Columbus

  Stars, Moon, Land

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• I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Horse, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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