Quotes About Judgment

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

good leadership revolves around good judgment. That is the defining characteristic of a good leader.

Don't automatically assume that someone is stupid or indifferent because they haven't mastered a particular task yet.

A leader is paid to do three things: Get the job done and get it done well. Plan ahead—be proactive, not reactive. Exercise good, sound judgment in doing all of the above.

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character.

Commanders are not always leaders. Commanders are appointed. Leaders are unofficially "elected" by the troops in the unit. Likewise in other fields of endeavor. Every leader is put through an informal process in the first few weeks wherein his people judge him and decide whether or not he is worthy of their trust. He must earn that trust. How? A leader must prove himself by his actions, appearance, demeanor, attitude, and decisions.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Don't talk like that, Dill," said Aunt Alexandra. "It's not becoming to a child. It's – cynical." "I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?" "The way you tell it, it is.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.

Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them. Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . ." His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends." "That's odd, isn't it?

Blind, that's what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people's hearts, I looked only in their faces.

An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those thing... Atticus, he was real nice.. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.

No jury in this part of the world's going to say, We think you're guilty, but not very, on a charge like that. It was either straight acquittal or nothing.

I'm only trying to make you see beyond men's acts to their motives. A man can appear to be a part of something not-so-good on its face, but don't take it upon yourself to judge him unless you know his motives as well. A man can be boiling inside, but he knows a mild answer works better than showing his rage. A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.