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.
There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
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.
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.
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.
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 your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
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.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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.
No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!
I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.
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.
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.
The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.
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.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.
