Laura Schlessinger is an American author, radio host, and conservative commentator. She is best known for her radio show The Dr. Laura Program, which aired from 2000 to 2010. She is also the author of several books on relationships, parenting, and personal growth. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Laura Schlessinger on education, marriage, leadership.
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People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.
Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.
Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.
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Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible. — Laura Schlessinger
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There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.
Nobody leaves a house where there is peace, joy and good sex.
Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.
If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.
If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.
You have the power. You are the magic wand.
Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.
The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".
Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.
Laura Schlessinger Quotes About Love
Depth has one address: fidelity in love. — Laura Schlessinger
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is. — Laura Schlessinger
Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family. — Laura Schlessinger
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience. — Laura Schlessinger
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. — Laura Schlessinger
There is no unconditional love in the universe. — Laura Schlessinger
You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually. — Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger Quotes About Inspiring
Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself. — Laura Schlessinger
The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am — Laura Schlessinger
Everything I say is true. — Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger Quotes About Life
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved. — Laura Schlessinger
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does. — Laura Schlessinger
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later. — Laura Schlessinger
It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals. — Laura Schlessinger
The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life. — Laura Schlessinger
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. — Laura Schlessinger
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.' — Laura Schlessinger
The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing. — Laura Schlessinger
Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair. — Laura Schlessinger
You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value. — Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger Quotes About Children
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing. — Laura Schlessinger
Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children. — Laura Schlessinger
A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react. — Laura Schlessinger
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship — Laura Schlessinger
Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home. — Laura Schlessinger
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. — Laura Schlessinger
A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself. — Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger Quotes About Parent
The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent. — Laura Schlessinger
The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward. — Laura Schlessinger
Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents]. — Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger Famous Quotes And Sayings
Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible. — Laura Schlessinger
Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain. — Laura Schlessinger
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. — Laura Schlessinger
Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.) — Laura Schlessinger
You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman. — Laura Schlessinger
Never ask anyone if you should do something, if ultimately you are afraid to do it. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble. — Laura Schlessinger
It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else. — Laura Schlessinger
Never miss an opportunity to look like a nice guy. — Laura Schlessinger
Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on. — Laura Schlessinger
Never sell your soul. — Laura Schlessinger
If you can't handle the baggage, you'll have to get out of the baggage room. — Laura Schlessinger
You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies. — Laura Schlessinger
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that. — Laura Schlessinger
Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of. — Laura Schlessinger
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. — Laura Schlessinger
If you're gay or lesbian, it's a biological error that inhibits you from relating normally to the opposite sex. — Laura Schlessinger
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience. — Laura Schlessinger
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward. — Laura Schlessinger
There's no point dating a guy who can't support a family. — Laura Schlessinger
Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity. — Laura Schlessinger
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. — Laura Schlessinger
Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy. — Laura Schlessinger
Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime. — Laura Schlessinger
Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept. — Laura Schlessinger
Emotions have no I.Q. — Laura Schlessinger
Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy. — Laura Schlessinger
Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up? — Laura Schlessinger
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation. — Laura Schlessinger
That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else. — Laura Schlessinger
There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment. — Laura Schlessinger
Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are. — Laura Schlessinger
When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong. — Laura Schlessinger
We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it. — Laura Schlessinger
You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right. — Laura Schlessinger
Women have to be controlled- we're just too emotional. — Laura Schlessinger
You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men. — Laura Schlessinger
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil. — Laura Schlessinger
Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says? — Laura Schlessinger
I haven't yelled at anybody today. It's been a slow day. — Laura Schlessinger
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands. — Laura Schlessinger
In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives. — Laura Schlessinger
When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever. — Laura Schlessinger
Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible. — Laura Schlessinger
Arguing with a man doesn't work. — Laura Schlessinger
Don't underestimate how fine you are. — Laura Schlessinger
There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson. — Laura Schlessinger
I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong. — Laura Schlessinger
As women go, so goes civilization. — Laura Schlessinger
Sometimes guys avoid things they don't know how to do well. — Laura Schlessinger
I think I average one good sulk a week. — Laura Schlessinger
A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her. — Laura Schlessinger
Other people do not owe me their availability. — Laura Schlessinger
Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control. — Laura Schlessinger
It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc. — Laura Schlessinger
People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues. — Laura Schlessinger
Only good people feel guilt. — Laura Schlessinger
That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him. — Laura Schlessinger
I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry. — Laura Schlessinger
People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong. — Laura Schlessinger
My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him. — Laura Schlessinger
If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled. — Laura Schlessinger
There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper? — Laura Schlessinger
If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink. — Laura Schlessinger
It doesn't matter what you say [to me] after "even though". I never change my mind. Give it up. — Laura Schlessinger
There's no point feeling angry at a drunk. — Laura Schlessinger
I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it. — Laura Schlessinger
I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. — Laura Schlessinger
I want to regain my First Amendment rights. — Laura Schlessinger
Life Lessons by Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger's work emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility, self-discipline, and understanding the consequences of one's actions.
She encourages readers to take ownership of their lives and make conscious decisions that will lead to positive outcomes.
She also encourages readers to think critically and objectively, and to be open to learning from the experiences of others.
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