Top 97 Quotes About Being Judged
#1. If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.
Ellen DeGeneres
#2. Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
Erica Jong
#3. Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.
Sheryl Sandberg
#4. True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought.
Carl R. Rogers
#5. Then it hits me: High school is exactly like a beauty pageant. Of course. Walking down a hallway is like being on stage, being judged by your appearance.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#6. I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
Kelly Osbourne
#7. And I'm OK being judged as an actor.
Sean Hayes
#8. Acting in stereotypically feminine ways makes it difficult for women to reach for the same opportunities as men, but defying expectations and reaching for those opportunities leads to being judged as undeserving and selfish.
Sheryl Sandberg
#9. What I have found is that when we get to that still, small voice inside and begin to live by it, we see that that still, small voice doesn't judge us the way we are being judged by others all the time.
Echo Bodine
#10. It's not your status as an orogene that bothers them. It's that you haven't yet proven yourself.
(It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.)
N.K. Jemisin
#11. Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.
James Richardson
#12. The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
Criss Jami
#13. Being judged and found lacking by the people who were supposed to love you never left anyone feeling all right.
Mariana Zapata
#14. It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial ...
Warren Buffett
#15. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.
Shannon L. Alder
#16. It's a special form of humiliation, being judged by the things you can't change.
Anonymous
#17. But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#18. The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what you wear. People care so much about that these days.
Ruth Wilson
#19. Growing up without being judged by other kids allowed me to be okay with liking things no one else liked.
Felicia Day
#20. He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.
Albert Camus
#21. Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
Augusto Pinochet
#22. I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.
Chris Rock
#23. As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
David Sedaris
#24. Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
Brendan Myers
#25. To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.
Paul Washer
#26. The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad.
Rick Pitino
#27. Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,
that of being judged by their peers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. All I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I'm being judged.
Tom Upton
#29. More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He
Henning Mankell
#30. Do I abide by the black-and-white limits I've set for myself because that's who I truly am or because that's who I am while being judged? And how far into that gray area might I venture before I go running back to my familiar boundaries?
K.A. Tucker
#31. As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#32. We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Erica Jong
#33. IS THERE ANYTHING MORE TOXIC THAN THE FEAR of being judged? Judgment shuts us down and makes us hide. It keeps us from being ourselves, which keeps us from connecting with other people.
Donald Miller
#34. Imagine living your life without the fear of being judged by others. You no longer rule your behavior according to what others may think about you. You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you, either.
Miguel Ruiz
#35. I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.
Karen Elson
#36. The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.
Bob Newhart
#37. Hesitation and the fear of being judged kills more relationships than misunderstanding and arguments.
Himmilicious
#38. So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.
Orson Scott Card
#39. I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#40. I hate being judged all the time and having to hide my fear, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. You think I'm a brave, talented young woman, who is never intimidated by anything. Well, you're wrong. Everything intimidates me. I avoid glances, smiles, close contact.
Paulo Coelho
#41. President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
Jeff Goodell
#42. Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?
Marco Pierre White
#43. I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.
Rib Hillis
#44. I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.
Rachel Hunter
#45. (It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.) Lately
N.K. Jemisin
#46. I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pretty or whatever. I was being judged in ways that left me nowhere to go. You have to be patient.
Pierce Brosnan
#47. On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
Avi Arad
#48. If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance!
Patti Digh
#49. I'd hate to think our whole planet was being judged by Texas.
Stephen King
#50. I can't say I was happy with your mother. I can't say I enjoyed almost twenty years of being judged by her and always found wanting.
Joe Hill
#51. Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
Kate Moss
#52. I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#53. All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong
#54. The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
#55. I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.
Prabal Gurung
#56. I do not fear, for I am protected; I do not feel superior, for I know the cut of being judged. We are all human, in all the ways that matter - but one would not know that for all the ways we become blind to each other, for the smallest trivialities.
Marjorie M. Liu
#57. I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat
I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up with it.
Mark Twain
#58. I assumed that people weren't doing their best so I judged them and constantly fought being disappointed, which was easier than setting boundaries. Boundaries are hard when you want to be liked and when you are a pleaser hellbent on being easy, fun, and flexible.
Brene Brown
#59. A lot of times, just because people are different, they're judged. I try not to let that concern me. But sometimes it can be hurtful, because I do feel judged sometimes for being a little different.
Erin Davie
#60. I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.
Joshua Bell
#61. When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.
Julian Barnes
#62. To be judged of what you were is just unfair as a butterfly being judge while it was a capetillar
Hlovate
#63. Chaos lost in chaos. Liberty in being a small part of a larger madness. When you weren't seen, you weren't judged. There was a desirable freedom in that.
Penelope Douglas
#64. Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.
Halle Berry
#65. The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.
Sean Hayes
#66. The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
Saul Alinsky
#67. Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.
Rob Schneider
#68. A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#69. Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#70. When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
Maynard Webb
#71. I imagined a time when being gay is as unquestioned and un-judged as is having blue eyes. Some might call it fantasy or science fiction. I'd like to think it's the future.
Missouri Vaun
#72. People need to feel safe to talk without their ideas being criticized, judged, demeaned, or mocked.
Timothy Carey
#73. If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?
Donald L. Hicks
#75. Anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.
Gloria Steinem
#76. When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.
Jenny Lawson
#77. You did that when you started to care a lot
you worried he was watching your every move to make sure he really wanted you. You could forget that maybe you were supposed to be doing that too. You forgot it wasn't just you being watched and judged and trying to pass some test.
Deb Caletti
#78. I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don't think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.
Zoe Kravitz
#79. Being a writer, I'd never judged a book by its cover, but I suppose that the way a book carried itself gave you a bit of an insight on what was on the inside.
Lindsay Patton
#80. Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
Vaclav Havel
#81. Overthrow is a nicely judged word. It suggests a wrestler being flung to the mat. That only happens when you move outside your centre of gravity. Your enemy can't throw you if you have your feet firmly planted. Which
M.R. Carey
#82. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
Rumi
#83. [Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.
Jim Parsons
#84. I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.
Lykke Li
#85. My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
Karl Jaspers
#86. When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.
Donald L. Hicks
#87. A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B.R. Ambedkar
#88. We all deal with being unfairly judged.
Vin Diesel
#89. When you call me judgmental are you not being judgmental? After all, you have also just judged me as being judgmental.
DeBorrah K. Ogans
#90. Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
Saint Augustine
#91. At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
Kate Bosworth
#92. The church is not to be judged by how useful we are as a "supportive institution" and our clergy as members of a "helping profession". The church has its own reason for being, hid within its own mandate and not found in the world. We are not chartered by the Emperor.
Stanley Hauerwas
#93. The essence of things is not altered by their external relations, and that which, abstracting from these, alone constitutes the absolute worth of man is also that by which he must be judged, whoever the judge may be, and even by the Supreme Being.
Immanuel Kant
#94. It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ's own. The church is the human being who has become human, has been judged, and has been awakened to new life in Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#95. People, especially women, are judged on their bodies. And food, far from being a source of energy and enjoyment, becomes a battleground of guilt and shame and excess and deprivation. Everywhere we look, success and sexiness and happiness seem to belong to the thin.
Emma Woolf
#96. I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.
Mz. Robinson
#97. Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.
Kelly Reilly
