Don’t give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you will stumble over something terrific. I have never hear of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Perseverance
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Opportunity
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Humanity
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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Love, Life
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Success
When life’s problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Appreciation, Gratitude, Blessings, Problems
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 principle of equal partnership.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Marriage
We must remember that hatred is like acid. It does more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Consequences
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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Wishes, Marriage
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Marriage
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you’ll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Cheating
It is far better to be alone than to wish you were
—Ask 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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Maturity
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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Party, Parties
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Lies
No one has the right to destroy another person’s belief by demanding empirical evidence.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Belief
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Vision
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Character, Value
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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Drugs
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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Health, Judges, Judgment, Judging
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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Assurance, Confidence, Class
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Television
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Work
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Trouble
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Death, Dying
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Letting Go
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Speakers, Speaking
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
—Ask Ann Landers
Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice, you may wind up making other people’s mistakes.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Mistakes
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Life and Living
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