Judging Ourselves Quotes

#1. If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach, feeling guilty or judging ourselves has never really worked.

John Earle

#2. But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time - in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.

Lee Strobel

#3. We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

John Wesley

#4. to fill that gap. The habit of judging ourselves is what pounds us into the ground. You're

Ruby Wax

#5. As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

Vidya Balan

#6. The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#8. Judging is something we are accountable to do. We are to judge righteous judgment (John 7:24). But let us be more severe in judging ourselves than others.

Anonymous

#9. Judging others is easy because it distracts us from the responsibility of judging ourselves.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says "I am a mistake" instead of saying "I made a mistake.

David W. Earle

#11. Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.

Bodie Thoene

#12. We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

Eric Harvey

#13. When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.

Michael Eisen

#14. We feel the most balance when we're not dividing ourselves on other people's scales.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#15. Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

Thomas A Kempis

#16. We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

Wilkie Collins

#17. When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. ... We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Amy Cuddy

#18. 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.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

Elle Fanning

#21. If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.

Paul Washer

#22. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#23. How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.

Human Angels

#25. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

Rafael Sabatini

#26. What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.

Bonnie Friedman

#27. The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others.

Harold H. Bloomfield

#28. The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.

Jacob De Jager

#29. The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

Marcel Proust

#30. We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

George Eliot

#31. My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.

Rosamund Lupton

#32. The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Vironika Tugaleva

#33. We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Vance Havner

#34. Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.

Gautama Buddha

#35. If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Seneca The Younger

#36. No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

Barbara Goldsmith

#37. The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

Paul Valery

#38. When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

#39. Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

George F. Kennan

#40. We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

Tom Selleck

#41. My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

Tom Coburn

#42. Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.

Bell Hooks

#43. Not judging is another way of letting go of fear and experiencing Love. When we learn not to judge others - and totally accept them, and not want to change them - we can simultaneously learn to accept ourselves.

Gerald Jampolsky

#44. We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.

Bonnie L. Oscarson

#45. Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

Moby

#47. We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

Johan Huizinga

#48. Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

John A. Sanford

#50. It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Charles Spurgeon

#51. We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#52. I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that "other eye," which we can use to judge ourselves.

Doris Lessing

#53. The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

Jerry Bridges