Joyce Brothers Quotes - Page 2

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere 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.

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

Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.

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.

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

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.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

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.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

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

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

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

The need to connect with one another intimately is what makes and keeps us human. The challenge throughout life is to find the courage to reach out to potential partners when our primary relationship ends and to recharge our tried-and-true unions when their sizzle starts to fizzle.

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

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.

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.

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.

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

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.

Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

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