Joyce Brothers Quotes

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

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

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

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

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.

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