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

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

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

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

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: Value, Character

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

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: Problems, Gratitude, Appreciation, Blessings

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

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

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

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

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

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

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Television

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

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

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

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

The Lord gave us two ends—one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

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

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: Humanity, Persistence, Courage, Advice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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