Top 160 Laura C. Schlessinger Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

52. “The time spent on family is not a sacrifice. You are living a life with choices; when you make the right ones, you have a good life.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

53. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

54. “My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

55. “Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent’s home.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

56. “I’m tired of the ‘can’t win against evil’ way. I’m sorry, you cannot. They’ll run you over. So that is my one big passion. ‘Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win’ – that will be my next passion book. I am angry.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

57. “Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation...”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

58. “Listen carefully, because I don’t repeat myself – and if I do, I get testy.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

59. “Oh, well, there’s a difference between privacy and secrecy.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

60. “People who have “their own issues” often don’t stand back and look at the big picture- they’re too busy orchestrating their own issues.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

61. “There’s no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I’m always right.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

62. “Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son’s new wife.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

63. “There is no unconditional love in the universe.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

64. “If there’s an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

65. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

66. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

67. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

68. “This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won’t get it back later.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

69. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

71. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

72. “It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

73. “We all get self-centered.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

74. “There’s no point dating a guy who can’t support a family.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

76. “Women who don’t think they can get a neat guy hang onto losers because something is better than nothing.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

77. “As women go, so goes civilization.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

78. “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.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

79. “The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

80. “When you change yourself to win someone’s heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

81. “Psychology doesn’t like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

82. “Everything I say is true.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

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

— Laura C. Schlessinger

84. “I’m very fond of food. I get hungry, and I like to eat almost all the time.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

85. “Situations reveal who we are, they don’t create who we are.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

86. “I’m so happy, I can hardly spit.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

87. “Stop saying “right” to me. I’m starting to feel hostile.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

88. “A lot of what children go through is because you adults don’t carry the burden yourself.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

89. “If you’re a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you’re a conservative, anything you say is hateful.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

90. “It’s a tough world out there, and women can’t afford to be weenies.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

91. “It’s not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

92. “You have the power. You are the magic wand.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

93. “The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

94. “If you think positively instead of negatively, you’ll behave better and you’ll feel better.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

95. “Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

96. “Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don’t treat them well, and they don’t behave right.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

97. “I know I’m right, and I know you’re wrong.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

98. “Guys behave like they’re naive, but they’re not stupid. They know what’s going on.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

99. “Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger

100. “Arguing with a man doesn’t work.”

— Laura C. Schlessinger