Laura Schlessinger Quotes

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Nobody leaves a house where there is peace, joy and good sex.

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

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.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

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.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

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.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

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.

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.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.