We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed.
—Charles Lindbergh
You can’t always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
—Kate DiCamillo in Because of Winn-Dixie
Marriage is an extraordinary thing, and I doubt if any outsider—even a child of the marriage—has the right to judge.
—Agatha Christie
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
—Bob Dylan
We do not judge the people we love.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
—Voltaire
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
—Oscar Wilde
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
—Douglas William Jerrold
I acknowledge the cold truth of her death for perhaps the first time. She is truly gone, forever out of reach, and I have become my own judge.
—Sheila Ballantyne
You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation—I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too. I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgement of you. Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things
I learned a long time ago to never judge a book by its cover. It seems what people try to represent on the outside very rarely mirrors their inside.
—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller
I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
—Mahatma Gandhi
It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.
—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
—Dylan Thomas