Dr. Joyce Brothers Quotes

The best proof of love is trust.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

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

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

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

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

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

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.

If you change nothing, nothing changes.

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.