31 Quotes About Gossip and Judgment

There is not much good that comes out of gossip. However, the negative consequences happen when you become a participant or initiate gossip. Here are some great quotes about gossip and judgement that are encouraging.

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

“Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”

“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”

“Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.”

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

“I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.”

“It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”

“It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. ”

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

“No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it.”

“Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.”

“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul.”

“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”

“We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.'”

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.”

“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

“When you’re too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.”

“Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.”

“You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.”

There are so many ways that gossip can become some negatively transformed and effect those around you.