Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Joyce Brothers
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American psychologist Joyce Brothers.
Last updated on August 4, 2024.
There is such a thing as bad publicity.
The best proof of love is trust.
For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
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 love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
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.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
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.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.
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.
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The greatest happiness is family happiness.
Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.
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.
The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.
Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.
There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.
When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
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.
Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.
Any man who watches more than three consecutive football games on TV in one day can be declared legally dead.
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
If you change nothing, nothing changes.
When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.
The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.
When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.
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