Noun
A star used as a navigation reference
Synonym: lodestar
A person who provides inspiration
Synonym: guiding light
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. Gustav Mahler
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star. Booker T. Washington
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property. Charles Dickens
His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary. Bhagat Singh
Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me. Ayn Rand
We are told that this "Jasper County Star" at a dedication in 1964 that brought together the governors of the 4-states was dubbed a "Guiding Star" and "Star of Peace." Source: Internet