Ann Landers famous quotes

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
-- Ann Landers

#Inspirational #Motivational #Relationship

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers

#Motivational #Success #Teacher

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
-- Ann Landers

#Love #Loyalty #Fire

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
-- Ann Landers

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
-- Ann Landers

#Children #Successful #Majority

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
-- Ann Landers

#Inspirational #Letting Go #Courage

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
-- Ann Landers

#Believe #Shopping #America

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
-- Ann Landers

#Life #Success #Letting Go

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
-- Ann Landers

#Life #Motivational #Nurse

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
-- Ann Landers

#Thinking #Worry #Age

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
-- Ann Landers

#Strong #Women #Unconditional Love

Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.
-- Ann Landers

#Morning #Writing #Names

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
-- Ann Landers

#Humanity #Belief #Empirical Evidence

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
-- Ann Landers

#Hands #Gnarly #Feet

A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.
-- Ann Landers

#Sunset #Lovely #Happy Marriage

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
-- Ann Landers

#Mistake #Reality #Wind

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
-- Ann Landers

#Believe #Cows #Milk

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
-- Ann Landers

#Communication #Talking #May

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
-- Ann Landers

#Friends #Country #Health

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
-- Ann Landers

#Love #Inspirational #Relationship

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
-- Ann Landers

#Home #Men #Fishing

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
-- Ann Landers

#Courage #Eye #Looks

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
-- Ann Landers

#Way #Replacements #Lost

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.
-- Ann Landers

#Fashion #Lunch #Causes

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.
-- Ann Landers

#New Year #Memories #Love You

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
-- Ann Landers

#Positive #Witty #Truth

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
-- Ann Landers

#Blessed #Dentist #Conversation

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?
-- Ann Landers

#Lying #Live Life #Hard Work

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
-- Ann Landers

#Money #Jobs #Maturity

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
-- Ann Landers

#Moving On #Forgiveness #Heartbroken

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
-- Ann Landers

#Choices #Misery #Problem

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
-- Ann Landers

#Success #Dream #Glasses

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
-- Ann Landers

#Summer #Teacher #Determination

My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock.
-- Ann Landers

#Women #Looks #Recipes

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
-- Ann Landers

#Funny #Hilarious #Humorous

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
-- Ann Landers

#Funny #Motivational #Hilarious

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
-- Ann Landers

#Integrity #People #Waiting

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
-- Ann Landers

#Drinking #People #Addiction

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
-- Ann Landers

#Wisdom #Cheating #Men

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
-- Ann Landers

#Funny #Children #Talking

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
-- Ann Landers

#Successful #Thinking #Two

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
-- Ann Landers

#Funny Inspirational #Wish #Married

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
-- Ann Landers

#Lonely #Kindness #Thoughtful

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
-- Ann Landers

#Maturity #Growing #Wiser

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
-- Ann Landers

#Life #Real #Long

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business
-- Ann Landers

#Mind Your Own Business #Mind #Today

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
-- Ann Landers

#Successful #Cleaning #Attics

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
-- Ann Landers

#Inspirational #Life #Leadership

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
-- Ann Landers

#Dog #Finding Yourself #Admiration

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
-- Ann Landers

#Love #Wedding #Sunset