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
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Speaking, Speakers
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Lies
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 & Failure, Success
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 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
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
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
One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Humanity
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, Blessings, Appreciation, Gratitude
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
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Work
It is far better to be alone than to wish you were
—Ask Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Opportunity
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
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Dogs, Integrity, Animals
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Life and Living
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
—Ask Ann Landers
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 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: Courage, Humanity, Persistence, Advice
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Letting Go
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
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 at first you do succeed, try something harder.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Vision
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
—Ask Ann Landers
Topics: Television
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
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: Confidence, Class, Assurance
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
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
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
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