118+ Judge Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Judging someone does not define who they are; it defines who you are as the saying goes… And it applies when others judge us. So, just don’t blame yourself, be mindful, and depersonalize. Inspirational judge quotes will inspire you to understand judgements and make our world a much more compassionate and much less judgmental place.

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Judge Quotes

By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Be curious, not judgemental. – Walt Whitman
Anyone is free to judge me, but they weren’t there in my tough times. – S. Sreesanth
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others. – John Wesley
Everyone has untold stories of pain and sadness that make them love and live a little differently than you do. Stop judging, instead try to understand.
I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me. – Johnny Weir
Judging others is just wasting your time, giving your advice to men who don’t pay. – Toba Beta
Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are. – Wayne Dyer

If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn’t worth it. – Jazz Jennings
Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation. – Jasmine Guinness
It’s always the ones who know the least about you who judge you the most. – Anonymous
Still, it was a sad state of the world that people judged others not by the best that they could be but by the worst thought in their own hearts. – Elizabeth Hoyt
Never judge someone by the opinion of others.– Anonymous
Don’t judge me by my past I don’t live there anymore. – Anonymous
I don’t judge others. – Sarah Jessica Parker
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. – Henry Ward Beecher
If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance! – Patti Digh
Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge. – Anonymous

Easy to judge the mistakes of others, difficult to recognize our own mistakes.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! – Kris Carr
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
Be curious, not judgemental. – Walt Whitman
Most people who are criticizing and judging haven’t even tried what you failed at. – David Goggins
When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself. – Earl Nightingale
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Every time I judge someone else, I reveal an unhealed part of myself. – Anonymous
Stop judging how far people still have to go. Start celebrating how far they’ve come. – Anonymous

Don’t judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well. – Richelle E. Goodrich
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. – Rahul Dravid
Easy to judge the mistakes of others, difficult to recognize our own mistakes. – Anonymous
Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating. – Pushpa Rana
We can never judge the lives of others because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path but it’s another to think that yours is the only path. – Paulo Coelho
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril. – Joan of Arc
When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you believed about them was a lie, you wouldn’t want to accept it or make amends. – Shannon L. Alder
When someone judges you, it isn’t actually about you. It’s about them and their own insecurities, limitations, and needs. – Lulu
Often I have asked myself, what would it be like if I no longer had any desire to judge another? Or be controlled by the judgment of others? I would walk the earth as a very lightperson indeed. – Henri Nouwen
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. – Madonna Ciccone
Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that he has already judged that people judge others. – Anuj Somany
Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding. – Steve Maraboli
By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge. – Ashly Lorenzana
My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me. – Nate Robinson
Don’t concern yourself with the opinions of those who judge you. That is placing on them an importance they do not have. – Donna Lynn Hope
A word of advice is, when you judge someone, it doesn’t define the person that you’re judging. It defines you. – Tulisa
Let’s stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us. – Saurabh Sharma
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. – Saint Augustine
When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. – Swami Dhyan Giten
The ego is all about self-serving, ownership, winning, judging, and so on. – Wayne Dyer
Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts. – Sean Covey
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa
If you are pained by external things it is not they that disturb you but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. – Marcus Aurelius
No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It’s not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives. – Joanna Krupa
And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged. – Therese de Lisieux
Not judging people is the fastest way to peace. – Jonathan Jackson
I feel like when people judge me they’re not judging me, because they don’t know who I am. – Gisele Bundchen
Try to see the good in others. When you’re tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth. – Marianne Williamson
Our judgements judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. – Paul Valery Flametree
Our society is used to judging content by its package and label. – Joanna Krupa
I just try not to judge. Don’t judge me, and I won’t judge you. – Reba McEntire
There’s no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day. – Albert Camus
I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly. – Sarah Jessica Parker
While you were busy judging others, you left your closet open and a lot of skeletons fell out.
I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind – it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally. – Gordon Brown

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. – Michael J. Fox
If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware. – John A. Sandford
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. – William Ellery Channing
Judge not, that ye be not judged. – The Bible
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. – Charles Edwin Carruthers

It’s up to God to do the judging. You haven’t walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me – Aaron Neville
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment. – Donald Rumsfeld
The more one judges, the less one loves. – Honore de Balzac
The finest lesson I’ve learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I’m judging myself. – Lake Bell
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. – Nancy Lopez

Don’t pass judgement on others or you might be judged yourself. – Brian Cohen
I’ve gotten really good at not judging characters. – Sebastian Stan
Everyone has their own path and you can’t judge. – Jake Owen
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. – Russian Proverb
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In judging of others, a man laboreth in vain, – often erreth and easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself, he always laboreth fruitfully. – Thomas a Kempis
It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be. – Josh Radnor
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. – Elvis Presley
I grew up with a strong set of values – and one was never judging someone by how much money they had. – Henry Paulson
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. – Jean De La Fontaine

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody. – Joel Osteen
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. – Henry James
Instead of judging people, we need to pray. – Joyce Meyer
People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge. – Donald L. Hicks
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. – Wilson Mizner

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way. – Adam McKay
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. – Voltaire
It’s quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear. – Emma Watson
If you judge, investigate. – Seneca
If you would judge, understand. – Seneca

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it. – St. Lucia
Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment. – Bible
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A person that judges others will inevitably judge themselves harshly. It is only when one stops judging others that, that one can truly appreciate the beauty within. – Ando Oomae
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. – Arnold Bennett

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him. – Napoleon Hill
I can’t go anywhere without someone judging me. – Britney Spears
Judge not others unless you’re prepared to be judged! – Johnny Rotten
I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t ultimately start judging you and your choices. – Sarah Silverman

People are always judging you based on where you’re from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you’re going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It’s all about being authentic. – Andre Carson
You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are. – Kate Winslet
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. – Charles Spurgeon
Anytime we’re interacting with someone, we’re judging them, we’re sharing expectations, we think they didn’t live up to those expectations. – Jonathan Haidt

The most dangerous leap is the leap to conclusions. – Woodrow Kroll
Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance. – Benjamim Franklin

If you find it necessary to judge someone by their past, don’t be surprised when they find it necessary to put you there. – unknown
If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don’t listen to them. – Jazz Jennings

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. – W. Somerset Maugham
Even God doesn’t plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I.
To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative? – Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me. – Henry David Thoreau

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. – Mario Puzo
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it. – W. Somerset Maugham