"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."
— Nicholas Sparks

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"."
— Erma Bombeck

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
— Albert Camus

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."
— Jimmy Carter

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)

"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
— Douglas Adams

"Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

""How can I judge?" she said at last. "To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster." She let her head fall into her arms and started crying quietly. "I miss him! Curse him! I miss him!"

Mithorden put a hand on her shoulder and let her cry for a few minutes. A sad smile slowly spread across his face. "I'm glad you can forgive him," he said at last.

Luthiel lifted her head. "How do you know?"

"Because you miss him.""
— Robert Fanney

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up."
— Jesse Jackson

"People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

"I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all."
— Henry James

"What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?"
— Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come)

"The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube. indecisiveness "
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. "
— Mark Twain

"The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?"
— Jon Katz

"As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary
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— William S. Burroughs

"The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?"
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)

"These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice."
— Marilynne Robinson (Gilead: A Novel)

"Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

"We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art."
— Irving Stone (The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo)

"The last shall come first and the first shall come last"
— Various

"Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing... but there is only TERROR.

Jeramiah 14:19 "
— Various (Holy Bible: NIV Holy Bible)

"There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day."
— Martin Luther

"There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there."
— Bill McKibben (The End of Nature)

"The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions."
— James Redfield (The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision)

"It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men."
— Petrus Borel

""It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent." "
— Abby Mann

"A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. *It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!* Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what *we* stand for: *justice, truth... and the value of a single human being!* "
— Abby Mann