Laura Schlessinger Quotes

Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

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

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

Never sell your soul.

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

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

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.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

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.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

Everyone's related to someone who robbed a bank or did something.

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.

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.

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

There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Go do the right thing.

People are like nations-if you help them a lot, they hate you.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We all get self-centered.

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'