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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Ask Ann Landers (American Advice Columnist)

Inspirational Quotations by Ask Ann Landers (American Advice Columnist)

Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Esther Pauline “Eppie” Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Owing to this popularity, “Ann Landers”, though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon.

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Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
—Ask 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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Cats

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

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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Opportunity

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Vision

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: Blessings, Problems, Gratitude, Appreciation

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

One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Humanity

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Life and Living

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Advice, Persistence, Humanity, Courage

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: Dying, Death

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

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: Life, Love

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Work

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Lies

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Speakers, Speaking

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

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Marriage

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Integrity, Dogs, Animals

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: Judgment, Judging, Health, Judges

It is far better to be alone than to wish you were
—Ask Ann Landers

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

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Children

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

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

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.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Success

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Letting Go

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

No one has the right to destroy another person’s belief by demanding empirical evidence.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Belief

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