Top 40 Judging Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t judge me. You know my name, but not my story.”

— Demi Lovato

2. “Before you judge someone, walk a mile in his shoes.”

— Eminem

3. “Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.”

— Carl Sagan

4. “Be curious, not judgmental.”

— Walt Whitman

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5. “Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.”

— C. S. Lewis

6. “You don’t have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.”

— Haruki Murakami

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7. “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

— George Eliot

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8. “Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.”

— Zig Ziglar

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9. “Only God can judge me.”

— Tupac Shakur

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10. “In the end they’ll judge me anyway, so whatever.”

— Kid Cudi

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11. “I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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12. “No one should judge what I’ve done with my life, not unless they’ve been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.”

— Michael Jackson

13. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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14. “Don’t judge anyone but don’t trust anyone.”

— Lady Gaga

15. “Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.”

— Michael Jackson

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16. “The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.”

— Deepak Chopra

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17. “A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he’s clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.”

— Carlos Castaneda

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18. “It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.”

— Billy Graham

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19. “Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?”

— Rick Riordan

20. “People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.”

— Taylor Swift

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21. “Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.”

— Buddha

22. “If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge.”

— Junot Díaz

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23. “A coward judges all he sees by what he is.”

— Stephen King

24. “Don’t judge your success by other peoples opinions. Have self belief.”

— Nigel Godrich

25. “Even God doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”

— Dale Carnegie

26. “I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.”

— Marlo Morgan

27. “Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

28. “I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.”

— Bruce Lee

29. “When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.”

— John Calvin

30. “Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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31. “Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.”

— Brian Tracy

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32. “If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta’ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

33. “Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”

— Stephen King

34. “Let the Lord judge the criminals.”

— Tupac Shakur

35. “Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.”

— Seneca the Younger

36. “Instead of judging people, we need to pray.”

— Joyce Meyer

37. “Remember that only God can judge us; forget the haters, because Somebody loves you.”

— Miley Cyrus

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38. “Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

39. “God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”

— Saint Augustine

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40. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”

— Ray Bradbury