Joyce Brothers

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

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

My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.
– Joyce Brothers

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

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

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

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

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

Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
– Joyce Brothers

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.
– Joyce Brothers

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

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

The best proof of love is trust.
– 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.
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I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
– Joyce Brothers

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

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

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.
– Joyce Brothers

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

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.
– Joyce Brothers

Strong families use the word “we” a lot, but “I” is never forgotten.
– Joyce Brothers

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

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

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

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

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.
– Joyce Brothers