Laura Schlessinger Quotes

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

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

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

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

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

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

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

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

I think I average one good sulk a week.

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

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

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

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.

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

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

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

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

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.

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.

If you think positively instead of negatively, you'll behave better and you'll feel better.

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.

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

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