Ann Landers Quotes

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

  134 Copy quote

• In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Children, Wise Parents

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

  Ann Landers

  Kindness, Maturity, Thoughtful

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

  Ann Landers

  Mind, Able, Conflict

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

  Ann Landers

  Life, Motivational, Nurse

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• Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

  Ann Landers

  Moving On, Forgiveness, Letting Go

  83 Copy quote

• Being interested is more important than being interesting.

  Ann Landers

  Interesting, Personality, Important

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• Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.

  Ann Landers

  Morning, Writing, Names

  65 Copy quote

• The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

  Ann Landers

  Life, Real, Long

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.245, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

  Ann Landers

  Opportunity, Giving, Compliment

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.

  Ann Landers

  Fun, Laughing, Unattractive

  29 Copy quote

• The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

  Ann Landers

  Communication, Talking, May

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• Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

  Ann Landers

  Museums, Church, Saint

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• If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

  Ann Landers

  Jobs, Criticism, Use

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

  Ann Landers

  Choices, Misery, Problem

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

  24 Copy quote

• Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

  Ann Landers

  Lonely, Kindness, Thoughtful

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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• No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

  Ann Landers

  Marriage, Two, People

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Money, Jobs, Maturity

  39 Copy quote

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