Ann Landers was an American journalist who wrote a widely syndicated advice column under the pen name Ann Landers. Her column was first published in 1955 and appeared in over 1,200 newspapers worldwide. She was known for her frank and direct advice on a variety of topics including relationships, family, and social issues.
In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
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.
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
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.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Ann Landers inspirational quote
Ann Landers Image Quotes
Wake up and smell the coffee. — Ann Landers
Ann Landers Short Quotes
When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.
I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
Ann Landers Famous Quotes And Sayings
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
Wake up and smell the coffee. — Ann Landers
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
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
Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal. — Ann Landers
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
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others. — Ann Landers
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
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
No one can take advantage of you without your permission. — Ann Landers
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. — Ann Landers
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day. — Ann Landers
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
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate. — Ann Landers
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. — Ann Landers
Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. — Ann Landers
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 is friendship that has caught fire . . . — Ann Landers
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. — Ann Landers
If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success. — Ann Landers
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Ann Landers
Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves. — Ann Landers
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. — Ann Landers
Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down — Ann Landers
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Ann Landers
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so." — Ann Landers
All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough. — Ann Landers
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. — Ann Landers
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. — Ann Landers
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. — Ann Landers
Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business — Ann Landers
People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude. — Ann Landers
Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment. — Ann Landers
I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous. — Ann Landers
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
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
Grown-up people can wait. — Ann Landers
People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait. — Ann Landers
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul. — Ann Landers
If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel. — Ann Landers
A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset. — Ann Landers
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. — Ann Landers
Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette. — Ann Landers
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished. — Ann Landers
No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. — Ann Landers
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley. — Ann Landers
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it. — Ann Landers
One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun. — Ann Landers
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us. — Ann Landers
If at first you do succeed, try something harder. — Ann Landers
Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured. — Ann Landers
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
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation. — Ann Landers
You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat. — Ann Landers
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original. — Ann Landers
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. — Ann Landers
In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers. — Ann Landers
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up. — Ann Landers
One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one. — Ann Landers
It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. — Ann Landers
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
A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it. — Ann Landers
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. — Ann Landers
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. — Ann Landers
Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past. — Ann Landers
An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce. — Ann Landers
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
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later. — Ann Landers
Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have. — Ann Landers
No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know. — Ann Landers
One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now." — Ann Landers
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered. — Ann Landers
I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made. — Ann Landers
No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat. — Ann Landers
A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated. — Ann Landers
My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don't look at the clock. — Ann Landers
People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be. — Ann Landers
The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live. — Ann Landers
Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been. — Ann Landers
Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say. — Ann Landers
Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others. — Ann Landers
The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief. — Ann Landers
The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement. — Ann Landers
Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened? — Ann Landers
A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half. — Ann Landers
Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished. — Ann Landers
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. — Ann Landers
Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance. — Ann Landers
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
Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded. — Ann Landers
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice. — Ann Landers
Life Lessons by Ann Landers
Ann Landers taught the importance of being kind and nonjudgmental, even in the face of criticism or disagreement. She also emphasized the importance of understanding and respecting different perspectives, and of being honest and direct in all of our interactions. Finally, she was an advocate for taking action to make the world a better place, no matter how small the effort.
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