Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

Unless someone has walked in your shoes, you really can't judge. Everyone needs to make the best choice for their life.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

We are all disposed to attribute to other's motives and views that we have entertained ourselves.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

You should never assume about someone.

Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.

I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is that they might give the same benefit of the doubt to those with whom they might disagree with.

Even if you see me fighting, don't assume I am a bad person.

I too was a player for many years, I realise there are moments when we all see things differently and cannot judge how someone else thinks.

I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.

Most people project onto you what they think you can do.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.