45 Quotes About Not Judging Others

There are many reasons to which we make unintentional judgements on others. These quotes about not judging others will bring you the encouragement and inspiration you need to stop yourself from being so quick to make assumptions.

“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.”

“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.”

“Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”

“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”

“By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”

“Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.”

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

“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.”

“Don’t pass judgement on others or you might be judged yourself.”

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”

“Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.”

“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? ”

“I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.”

“If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!”

“If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

“If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.”

“Instead of judging people, we need to pray.”

“It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

“Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

“Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.”

“Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realized that he has already judged that people judge others.”

“Judging others is just wasting your time, giving your advice to men who don’t pay.”

“Let’s stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us.”

“None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don’t know we can’t do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another.”

“Our judgements judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“The most dangerous leap is the leap to conclusions.”

“To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.”

“To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.”

“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.”

“We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

“We’ve spent so much time judging what other people created that we’ve created very, very little of our own.”

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

“When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.”

“When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.”

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

“While you were busy judging others, you left your closet open and a lot of skeletons fell out.”

“You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.”

You should expect that at some point you will be met with judgement.