Joyce Brothers Quotes

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

The best proof of love is trust.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.

The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

If you change nothing, nothing changes.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.