Laura Schlessinger
Laura Schlessinger
Laura Catherine Schlessingeris an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her radio program consists mainly of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice and has occasionally featured her short monologues on social and political topics. Her website says that her show "preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth16 January 1947
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We all get self-centered.
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs but will wreak havoc with your self-esteem, respect from others, and quality of life.
The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.
Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!
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.
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.
The success of the show is when I get a fax or a letter from somebody who gave up drinking, who didn't get an abortion, didn't do an adoption,
My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul.
A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.
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.
I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
We all have to make choices in life.