Ann Landers Quotes

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

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

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.

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.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

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

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

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

More divorces start in the bedroom than in any other room in the house.

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

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

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

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

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.

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.

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