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May you find great value in these quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song -
The song from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality. All
men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
The greatest battle of all is simply... Life.
This is no child's game. This is the big one -
the Super Bowl - the Game of all games.
The rules of Life are unwritten and unknown.
Perhaps, one could say that there are no rules.
The Judge has ultimate power.
She can call the game at any time - for any reason.
The penalties in the Game are completely arbitrary -
in both timing and severity.
Penalty for what, we ask?
The Judge is silent.
How can I win the Game?
"You can never win," comes the answer,
"So just take pleasure in playing the Game."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
Use heroes as a springboard for inquiry
into the identity and nature of admirably human qualities.
Do not judge heroes -
neither to put them unquestioningly on a pedestal
nor to unkindly probe their flaws.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A nation that is afraid to let its people
judge the truth and falsehood in an open market
is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
If life is a trial, who is the judge and jury?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge
the truth and falsehood in an open market
is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
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