Best Ann Landers Quotes About Maturity:
1- “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
2- “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
3- “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” ~ Ann Landers
4- “In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you’ve taught them to do for themselves.” ~ Ann Landers
5- “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
6- “Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.” ~ Ann Landers
7- “Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” ~ Ann Landers
8- “Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.” ~ Ann Landers
9- “Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 – with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You’d draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.” ~ Ann Landers
10- “The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.” ~ Ann Landers
11- “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
12- “Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.” ~ Ann Landers
13- “Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.” ~ Ann Landers
14- “The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.” ~ Ann Landers
15- “No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.” ~ Ann Landers
16- “If you want your children to listen, try talking softly – to someone else.” ~ Ann Landers
17- “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
18- “A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.” ~ Ann Landers
19- “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
20- “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”” ~ Ann Landers
21- “No one can take advantage of you without your permission.” ~ Ann Landers
22- “The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.” ~ Ann Landers
23- “People, like water, seek their own level.” ~ Ann Landers
24- “Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.” ~ Ann Landers
25- “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
26- “Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.” ~ Ann Landers
27- “Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business” ~ Ann Landers
28- “It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.” ~ Ann Landers
29- “When life’s problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.” ~ Ann Landers
30- “My personal recipe for success is- Do what you love and don’t look at the clock.” ~ Ann Landers
31- “People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.” ~ Ann Landers
32- “Many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing” ~ Ann Landers
33- “Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.” ~ Ann Landers
34- “Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.” ~ Ann Landers
35- “Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn’t brood over the past.” ~ Ann Landers
36- “If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” ~ Ann Landers
37- “A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.” ~ Ann Landers
38- “One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.” ~ Ann Landers
39- “A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.” ~ Ann Landers
40- “One of the best ways to measure people is how they behave when something free is offered.” ~ Ann Landers
41- “Love is friendship that has caught fire. … Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn’t brood over the past. It’s the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” ~ Ann Landers
42- “Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.” ~ Ann Landers
43- “What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” ~ Ann Landers
44- “Don’t indulge in gossip. … People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.” ~ Ann Landers
45- “The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.” ~ Ann Landers
46- “The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.” ~ Ann Landers
47- “A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.” ~ Ann Landers
48- “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” ~ Ann Landers
49- “Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.” ~ Ann Landers
50- “Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.” ~ Ann Landers
