Samuel Johnson Quotes

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

God warns before he wounds.

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

A fate is not a punishment.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.