Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Laura Schlessinger - Page 2

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having great luck and fortune is not the conduit to a loving and enjoyable life; gratitude is.

In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

There's no battered woman alive who didn't know in advance that the man was bad.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.

There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.

Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

When a man marries he takes a bigger risk than the woman, because she can march out with his kids, his money, his home, and his dog.

There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?

When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.

Men are very easy to get along with- they just want to come home to something pleasant.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

Emotions have no I.Q.

You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

Never do anything that you aren't prepared to face the true consequences of.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.

Go do the right thing.

Do not blame God for your stupid decisions.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

Nobody leaves a house where there is peace, joy and good sex.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

Behavior is a symptom. If you look at it like a problem, you're just going to make a judgment. If you look at like a symptom, you can do something about it.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.

Why should a man say what he feels, when a women is going to ignore what he says?

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

Only good people feel guilt.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.