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
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Abraham Maslow American Psychologist
- Daniel Goleman American Psychologist, Author
- Albert Ellis American Psychologist
- Milton Friedman American Economist
- Althea Gibson American Tennis Player
- Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) American Columnist
- Steven Pinker Canadian Psychologist
- Aaron Copland American Composer
- Freeman Dyson American Physicist, Author
- Jerry Stiller American Actor, Comedian
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