Top 100 Ann Landers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”

— Ann Landers

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2. “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.”

— Ann Landers

3. “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

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4. “Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business.”

— Ann Landers

5. “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

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

— Ann Landers

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7. “The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”

— Ann Landers

8. “No one can take advantage of you without your permission.”

— Ann Landers

9. “Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.”

— Ann Landers

10. “Being interested is more important than being interesting.”

— Ann Landers

11. “Wake up and smell the coffee.”

— Ann Landers

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12. “In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you’ve taught them to do for themselves.”

— Ann Landers

13. “It’s one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.”

— Ann Landers

14. “People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.”

— Ann Landers

15. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”

— Ann Landers

16. “When life’s problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.”

— Ann Landers

17. “There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?”

— Ann Landers

18. “It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.”

— Ann Landers

19. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”

— Ann Landers

20. “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”

— Ann Landers

21. “Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.”

— Ann Landers

22. “Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time.”

— Ann Landers

23. “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

24. “Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.”

— Ann Landers

25. “You’re all you’ve got.”

— Ann Landers

26. “A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.”

— Ann Landers

27. “Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.”

— Ann Landers

28. “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.”

— Ann Landers

29. “Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.”

— Ann Landers

30. “One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.”

— Ann Landers

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31. “My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don’t look at the clock.”

— Ann Landers

32. “Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.”

— Ann Landers

33. “Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don’t sample the goodies unless you’re willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.”

— Ann Landers

34. “People with integrity expect to be believed. If not, they let time prove them right.”

— Ann Landers

35. “Are you better off with him or without him?”

— Ann Landers

36. “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

37. “Maturity isn’t a product of growing older. It’s a product of growing wiser.”

— Ann Landers

38. “The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.”

— Ann Landers

39. “Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.”

— Ann Landers

40. “If at first you do succeed, try something harder.”

— Ann Landers

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41. “People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”

— Ann Landers

42. “Don’t give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down.”

— Ann Landers

43. “Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.”

— Ann Landers

44. “No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.”

— Ann Landers

45. “If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you’ll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.”

— Ann Landers

46. “People, like water, seek their own level.”

— Ann Landers

47. “Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.”

— Ann Landers

48. “All marriages are happy, it’s living together afterward that’s tough.”

— Ann Landers

49. “One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.”

— Ann Landers

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50. “If you want your children to listen, try talking softly – to someone else.”

— Ann Landers