Top 350 Dennis Prager Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”

— Dennis Prager

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2. “The biggest battle in life is with yourself.”

— Dennis Prager

3. “Happiness is a moral obligation.”

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4. “A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others.”

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5. “I prefer clarity over agreement.”

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6. “Prayer is not asking God to do something, it’s asking God to help YOU do something.”

— Dennis Prager

7. “Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.”

— Dennis Prager

8. “Self-control is the only possible road to character development.”

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9. “Utopian movements produce dystopias.”

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10. “An unhappy life is a life not lived.”

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11. “Corruption is Africa’s greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.”

— Dennis Prager

12. “Whatever the Left touches – the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion – it destroys or damages.”

— Dennis Prager

13. “Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can.”

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14. “When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate.”

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15. “Repetition is the mother of pedagogy.”

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16. “Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.”

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17. “Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude.”

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18. “Lies and victimhood make evil possible.”

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19. “Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.”

— Dennis Prager

20. “Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc.”

— Dennis Prager

21. “Only a fool can believe people are basically good.”

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22. “I am bored generally means “I am boring”.”

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23. “Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.”

— Dennis Prager

24. “If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write.”

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25. “Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have.”

— Dennis Prager

26. “We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don’t feel it.”

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27. “Secularism produces a bored soul.”

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28. “President Obama has done more damage to America than any American has since 1776.”

— Dennis Prager

29. “Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.”

— Dennis Prager

30. “Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom.”

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31. “Courage is the rarest of all good traits.”

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32. “The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.”

— Dennis Prager

33. “It is no longer higher education, it is higher ‘indoctrination ’”

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34. “There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.”

— Dennis Prager

35. “The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.”

— Dennis Prager

36. “The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better.”

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37. “Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don’t even have that.”

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38. “There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.”

— Dennis Prager

39. “To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.”

— Dennis Prager

40. “Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It’s what enables people to support the ‘underdog,’ even if the underdog is evil.”

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41. “Freedom comes from moral self-control. There is no other way to achieve it.”

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42. “Yes, there is a “secret to happiness” – and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.”

— Dennis Prager

43. “Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people.”

— Dennis Prager

44. “Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left’s depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.”

— Dennis Prager

45. “Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea.”

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46. “The entire European Union is a left-wing dream.”

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47. “For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven’t even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.”

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48. “The world is a bad place. There are many wonderful people, but on the whole, humanity basically stinks.”

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49. “Much of the world’s moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.”

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50. “Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness.”

— Dennis Prager