Ann Landers Quotes

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

I'm a mature person.

I'm a grown man. I don't point fingers.

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Men must know their limitations.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.