Jock Sturges Quotes

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

Everyone has issues, but they're always talking about my issues.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

When we make mistakes ourselves we hate to have other people notice them, but when the boot is on the other foot, we leave nothing unnoticed. The youngest child acts this way, and the greatest statesmen.

Life's about ego. So for someone to talk about my ego, as they are writing their piece about my ego, I'm wondering what they're doing with their ego?

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!

They judge lest they be judged.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.