Top 100 Judge Character Quotes
#2. I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#3. Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.
Zoe Kazan
#4. Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
David Sedaris
#6. Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.
Immanuel Kant
#7. Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.
Jon Stewart
#8. When I said I would be the judge of your worth, I did not mean that I owned your life, Rowan Jun.
Garyn Kei
Tamara Henson
#10. I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.
Rachel Weisz
#12. We must learn to judge potential partners by the content of their character and the compatibility of temperament and life purpose, not by the chemical reaction of hormones and physical attraction, and not by the superficial value system of the European.
Nana Kwaku Opare
#13. 'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
James Frain
#14. Choice betrays character," I said.
"That's not true." Loring moved his finger along the
sheet as if writing his name in cursive. "Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#16. You're an excellent judge of character, Sarene - except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic.
Brandon Sanderson
#17. My parents had raised me to not judge a person based off the color of their skin but by the composition of their character. A man was nothing if he wasn't true to his word and honorable.
Chelle Bliss
#18. Staines was not a terribly good judge of character. He loved to be enchanted, and so was very often drawn to persons whose manner was suggestive of tragedy, romance, or myth.
Eleanor Catton
#19. It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.
Lola Dodge
#20. It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#22. Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.
Orson Scott Card
#24. To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Mark Twain
#25. I'm so pleased you're such a quick judge of character. You've got him tagged."
"Yep, toe-tagged, in the freezer, then buried six feet under.
Joss Stirling
#26. I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
John Hawkes
#27. Well, perhaps Falconer will be able to figure it out; he's usually a good judge of character. I say the sooner we reach the Heartland the better. I, for one, am eager to rid him of our 'boring' company
Nicole Sager
#29. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.
Richard Sherman
#30. Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
Mike Judge
#31. It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.
Mike Judge
#32. You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
Marshall Allman
#33. Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.
Max Lucado
#34. The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
Romola Garai
#35. We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Sophie Swetchine
#36. Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#37. So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
Alan Rickman
#38. When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
Abbie Cornish
#39. I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!
Anne Frank
#40. When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.
Alyssa Sutherland
#41. Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.
Suzy Kassem
#42. I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the moment you judge my character is when we have a problem.
Rachelle Friedman
#43. My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
Adam Haslett
#44. Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself.
Josh McDowell
#45. Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.
Denis Waitley
#46. Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#47. 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
#48. But Katherine is different from all of those other girls. She never wanted anything to do with me, writing me off as some kind of filthy manwhore. That fact makes me respect her as a good judge of character, since it's pretty accurate.
Sabrina Paige
#49. If you judge the character, you cant play it.
Alan Rickman
#50. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by.
R.A. Salvatore
#51. It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
Robert M. Hensel
#53. I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.
Mz. Robinson
#54. Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
Raheel Farooq
#56. That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin - that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.
Emily Raboteau
#57. Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?
Chris Christie
#58. A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
William Ralph Inge
#59. You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.
Jeffrey Archer
#60. I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.
Cate Blanchett
#61. I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.
Avicii
#62. We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races
by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
Edward Abbey
#63. A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Bartholomew Gough
#64. Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.
Colin Firth
#65. Who thus translated the Chickasaw title meaning "The Man"; which translation Ikkemotubbe, himself a man of wit and imagination as well as a shrewd judge of character, including his own, carried it one step further and anglicised it to "Doom.
William Faulkner
#66. When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
William Hurt
#67. I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.
Boman Irani
#68. A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
J.G. Holland
#69. I am a terrible judge of character'
I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.
Freya North
#70. Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Suge Knight
#71. Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself.
Rod Steiger
#72. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Malcolm Forbes
#73. Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.
Glenn Close
#74. Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
Alexander Pope
#75. You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
Anne Bronte
#76. That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
Pam Grier
#77. The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.
Leonard Mlodinow
#78. To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
Paul Eldridge
#79. The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.
Frances Wright
#80. You might be a great judge of character, but you need to be a great judge of evidence to avoid delusion.
David McRaney
#81. If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
Swami Vivekananda
#82. Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
[Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
Jean De La Bruyere
#83. As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."
Javier Bardem
#84. It's not the job of an actor to judge your character
Daniel Craig
#85. When you can't see, you are only able to judge people by their character and integrity, not by the color of their skin, or by how they look and dress. What's inside a person's heart became my measuring stick. I can hear their hearts in their voices. Nobody can hide that from me.
Ed Lucas
#86. One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
Dianna Hardy
#87. Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#88. Was it possible to ever really know anyone, or was I simply the worst judge of character in all of history?
Mary E. Pearson
#89. I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.
Larry The Cable Guy
#90. Consider a man's good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.
Thiruvalluvar
#91. 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
#92. We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious ... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#93. We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).
Ayn Rand
#94. Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
Lord Acton
#95. But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character?" I groaned.
"Because you don't much care to judge people's characters," she answered after a moment's thought. "It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness."
It was small consolation.
Chris Stewart
#96. One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
Lynne Truss
#97. May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
Michael Jackson
#98. Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
Wes Fesler
#99. Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.
Anuj
#100. Judge a person not by how he treats you, but how he treats others. The former reflects what he wants you to think of him, the latter truly reflects who he is.
Betty Jamie Chung
