Best Judge Quotes

#1. Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Baruch Spinoza

#2. The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

Barack Obama

#3. I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

Raymond Pettibon

#4. I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

Hugh Jackman

#5. Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

Tim Heidecker

#7. You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Jane Austen

#8. Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

Paul Cezanne

#9. It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

Mark Twain

#10. The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Edward Gibbon

#11. The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Barbra Streisand

#12. We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

John Adams

#13. And of course you believed their wise counsel," said Elizabeth lightly, "because people who have never met me are always the best judge of my character.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#14. Age is not always the best judge of competence.

Meg Rosoff

#15. You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

Tony Robbins

#17. It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.

Matt Dillon

#18. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.

Natalie Taylor

#19. JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

Mae West

#20. The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

Oliver Ellsworth

#21. Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Man's first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#23. There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.

Nicky Gumbel

#24. Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.

Chuck Grassley

#25. A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.

Toni Sorenson

#26. The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

John Adams

#27. You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

Franz Grillparzer

#28. I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them.

Heidi Murkoff

#29. God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

Charles R. Swindoll

#30. They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

William Cowper

#31. the best way to judge whether the controlling party will act fairly in the future is to see whether it has acted fairly in the past.

Hugh Young

#32. The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

Dan Millman

#33. As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

Homer Hickam

#34. Cheerleading is a part of you. You live it all the time. People will judge you based upon it, but you can't be ashamed because although they may make fun of you, they are just jealous that you are on of the elite, the superior, the best ... a cheerleader!

Kacy Catanzaro

#35. Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Clive Thompson

#36. One minute Ender is the beginning and end of the world, the best chance for a great man that I'll ever have a chance to find. The next minute, he's a gay little boy who shamed me. You judge hi according to whether or not he's useful to you.

Orson Scott Card

#37. This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them is false, and it is all one story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#38. We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

Michael Josephson

#39. From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Polybius

#40. It's like with art. You can't tell someone how to do it, or it's not her art. You can't tell someone else how to believe.
It's up to Go to judge, and for me to help the people I love the best I can.

Miranda Kenneally

#41. I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

Derek Bok

#42. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#43. To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.

Peter Singer

#44. We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.

William James

#45. The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Jeremy Bentham

#46. What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.

Rosie Batty

#47. After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and the way you look, and you always want to put your best foot forward when you can.

Louise Nurding

#48. You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.

Melania Trump

#49. You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

Katherine Marsh

#50. My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.

Jojo Moyes

#51. Any judge knows there are many kinds of justice - for instance, ideal justice as opposed to the best-we-can-do justice, which is what we end up with in making so many of our decisions.

Louise Erdrich

#52. When you are embarrassed, do as you think best, and you will do very well. When you are in a difficulty, judge for yourself.

Henry James

#53. Unless someone has walked in your shoes, you really can't judge. Everyone needs to make the best choice for their life.

Kourtney Kardashian

#54. One cannot judge by book being best seller. We all know that. Many best sellers are terrible trash.

Philip K. Dick

#55. The best wisdom is knowing not to judge anyone and to be kind to everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#56. If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#57. I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Dorothy Day

#58. Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#59. Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce.

Anthony Boucher

#60. We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs

#61. The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

Frances Wright

#62. With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.

Nicky Gumbel

#63. Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#64. The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Ulysses S. Grant

#65. Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Robert Johnson

#66. She was dangerous. I'd heard the rumors, that she had a history as a wild woman, that she'd been married to a gambler, maybe even been one herself, that her past was scandalous at best. But who was I to judge? My past was littered with scandal.

Margaret Madigan

#67. I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

Mark Helprin

#68. As odd as it seemed, I learned that people may disappoint you, yes, but the one thing they also did was surprise you. Some of the best people were also some of the worst, there was no way to judge anyone really, you had to let them prove something.

Holly Hood

#69. Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

George Steinbrenner

#70. Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

Walter Isaacson

#71. God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

#72. We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.

Alberto Gonzales

#73. If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.

Anne Boleyn

#74. Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Lord Acton

#75. The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one's hand and ask: "Does this spark joy?" If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.

Marie Kondo

#76. Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

Marianne Williamson

#77. Our life's dance is not painted for us in footsteps on the floor. It's not laid out so we know where to place our next step. We simply had to judge which steps best fit the rhythms that we hear."

Paul Marshall

#78. If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

Dalai Lama

#79. You wouldn't have had to call a penalty on me, I would've called I on myself'.
9. "I'm the sole judge of my standards".
10. "I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me like it bothers some people. You can outwork the best player in the world.

Ben Hogan

#80. I feel like you can't judge a book by its cover, that's always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.

Andre Hueston Mack

#81. Don't complain or blame to others, you are the one who selected wrong person,now get up ,wipe your tears and correct your statistics and now make a wiser choice. Learn to judge people, learn from your master(god,parents,teacher,best friend).

Nikhil Yadav

#82. The best fight I ever saw without question, I was very fortunate to be a judge in the fight, between the then current WBC 122 pound champion Wilfredo Gomez, and the reigning WBC 118 pound champion Lupe Pintor. It was absolutely beyond belief.

Harold Lederman

#83. With an all-or-nothing mind-set, you tend to judge yourself relentlessly ... Eeyore becomes your best friend.

Mary E. DeMuth

#84. When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

Lois McMaster Bujold

#85. Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.

James F. Amos

#86. I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.

Clare Balding

#87. That's the best way to judge a relationship. Do you like the person you are when you're with him?

Lionel Fisher

#88. For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

Jeremy Hardy

#89. You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value.

Irving Stone

#90. Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not enough. This is a painful realization so often they hide behind righteous arrogance.

David W. Earle

#91. A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way.

Rob Zombie

#92. Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down ... go down swinging, singing, and loving.

Butch Walker

#93. Suzanne was kind of slutty, and it was good for every hot woman to have a slutty best friend because being able to judge your friends is one of the greatest gifts of friendship.

Alexandra Brenton

#94. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former. And the world feels this and does so; for the world is often a good judge.

Blaise Pascal

#95. You can't judge her now. She's doing the best that she can under the circumstances.

Danielle Paige

#96. We judge people by our own standards of happiness ... What makes you happy might not make that woman over there happy. But human beings have a terrible habit of thinking they know what's best for each other.

Priscilla Glenn

#97. I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome."
"To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian]
"I will find them," Reyna said.

Rick Riordan

#98. If you always do your best, there is no way you can judge yourself.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#99. When I'm filming something, I quite forget that it's all still got to come together and be edited. I'm so engrossed in trying to do the best I can on a day to day basis that I forget that people will see it and judge it.

Yasmin Paige

#100. Most people's natural inclination is to judge themselves according to their best qualities while they measure others by their worst. As a result, they point to areas where their teammates need to grow. But the truth is that every person is responsible for his own growth first.

John C. Maxwell