Joyce Brothers Quotes

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

If you change nothing, nothing changes.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.

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.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible.

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

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

Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

The secret of having it all is loving it all.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.

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

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

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

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

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or 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.

It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.

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

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

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

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.

No matter how great the differences are between men and women, the differences among members of the same sex are usually equally great if not greater.

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.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

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

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

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

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.

Strong families use the word we a lot, but I is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that we have never followed before. The family message is, We're behind you, so you can be you.

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

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

The best proof of love is trust

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