Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Joyce Brothers (American Psychologist)

Joyce Diane Brothers (1927–2013,) nee Diane Bauer, was an American psychologist, advice columnist, television personality, and writer. She was best known for providing personal counseling through the mass media.

Born to two lawyers in New York City, Brothers received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell in 1947. While a graduate student at Columbia, she taught at Hunter College in New York and received a master’s degree in 1949 and a doctorate in 1953. Her Ph.D. dissertation concerned the experimental study of connections among anxiety, behavior, and the action potential of muscles.

Brothers first became recognized upon winning the top prize on the American game show The $64,000 Question in 1955. The publicity from the game show enabled her to host various advice columns and television shows, which established her as a pioneer in the field of “pop psychology.” Her syndicated columns were featured in more than 300 newspapers and magazines. She wrote a monthly column for Good Housekeeping, for which she contributed for almost 40 years. She was also a regular guest on talk shows, and her face and name were recognizable to millions.

Brothers’ notable works include How to Get Whatever You Want Out of Life (1978,) What Every Woman Should Know About Men (1981,) and Widowed: A Guide for Living After Loss (1991.) City University of New York librarian Kathleen Collins wrote the biography Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology (2016.)

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We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Friendship

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.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Love

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.
Joyce Brothers

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.
Joyce Brothers

The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Love, Trust

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Dreams

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Trust, Friends and Friendship

I don’t believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Luck

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Sharing, Realistic Expectations, Marriage

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

An individual’s self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Self Respect, Preparation, Personality, Success, Behavior

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

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Ambition, Commitment, Energy

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

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

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Anger, Words

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Happiness

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Listening

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Success & Failure, Strength, Success

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, “making it”, or success.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Happiness, Success, Money

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Shopping, Debt

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.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Wealth

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

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.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Mistakes, Failure, Risk-taking, Failures, Worry, Acceptance, Decisions, Risk, Accepting The Worst

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

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They’re willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere 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
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Accomplishment

Trust your hunches… Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Vision, Trust, Intelligence, Intuition, Instincts

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.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Forgiveness

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.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Success

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
Topics: Family

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