judgmental behavior Quotes

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

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

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.

Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you're doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head.

People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.

Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I resent that kind of extremism of any kind. Left wing, right wing. Anyway at all. Anything that judges other people so harshly and across the board stupidity-wise. I got no time for that.

There's this tendency to be held in great esteem if you are judgmental. A sort of moral policing, being opinionated. What right has one to act like judges? What right has one to police another?

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

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.

If I judged anybody I wouldn't have any friends.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.