Best Joyce Brothers Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Joyce Brothers

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. — Joyce Brothers

(The Revsons apparently did not like a young psychologist named Joyce Brothers, who appeared as an expert on boxing. Thus the questions given her were exceptionally hard - they even asked her the names of referees - in the desire to get her off the show; their strategy had no effect: She became the second person to win $64,000.) — David Halberstam

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

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

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

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. — Joyce Brothers

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

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

The greatest happiness is family happiness. — Joyce Brothers

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

Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat. — James Joyce

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

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

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. — Joyce Brothers

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14. — Joyce Brothers

Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious. — Joyce Brothers

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

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers. — Joyce Banda

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

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. — Joyce Brothers

There is such a thing as bad publicity. — Joyce Brothers

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. — Joyce Brothers

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. — 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

The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything. — Joyce Brothers

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

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

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window. — Joyce Brothers

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

The secret of having it all is loving it all. — Joyce Brothers

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

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. — Joyce Brothers

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

The best proof of love is trust — Joyce Brothers

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes. — Joyce Brothers

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. — Joyce Brothers