Judging Quotes
111 quotes
"How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."
"Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book."
"Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding."
"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth."
"It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love."
"When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person."
"Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them."
"We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance."
"To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging."
"Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory."
"Mindfulness is living in the moment without judging it."
"I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)"
Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters
"Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value."
"It takes a moment to love and be loved. Hours spent judging are a waste."
"You should never judge a person solely by the evidence of your eyes."
"Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others."
"When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone."
"To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are."
"It’s never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones."
"We feel the most balance when we're not dividing ourselves on other people's scales."
"Many men think the same way about women, treating them as stars. They admire us from a distance, solely because of our appearance. And when some of them eventually decide to approach the ones they long to be with, they often get burnt."
Marcin Dolecki, Philosopher's Crystal: The Treacherous Terrain of Tassatarius
"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"
"If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity."
"Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care."
"Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment."
"Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ."
"For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions."
"Don’t you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"
"Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.” ― Traci Lea LaRussa"
"All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about."
"They have their opinions, but we have the answers."
"If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut."
"We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another’s handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more."
"I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They fed into each other, so it was best to quell such thoughts before they gathered strength."
"True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society."
"One mistake is all they see."
"No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple."
"We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case."
"If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?"
"I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all."
"Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens."
"God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?"
"There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice."
"She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that did not give her reason to judge them"
"In order to improve our life for good always remember that regardless of what anyone else says and does, we are ultimately responsible for our own actions. This is the only way to experience victory, joy, and satisfaction every day of our lives."
"I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
"A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time."
Tama Kieves, Inspired and Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in your life's work
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