Top 50 Joyce Brothers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you change nothing, nothing changes.”

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2. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”

— Joyce Brothers

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3. “The only people who don’t make mistakes are the people who don’t do anything.”

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4. “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”

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5. “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

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6. “A person’s self-concept is the core of his personality.”

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7. “The best proof of love is trust.”

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8. “Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.”

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9. “The greatest happiness is family happiness.”

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

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11. “Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.”

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12. “The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.”

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13. “If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.”

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

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15. “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.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “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. Dr. Joyce Brothers.”

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19. “A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver’s seat at the very moment when all a man’s adult judgment and insight is needed.”

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20. “I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “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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23. “When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.”

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24. “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.”

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

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26. “Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

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27. “When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.”

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28. “They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don’t have any, it is everything.”

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29. “I don’t believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.”

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

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31. “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.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.”

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34. “When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.”

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37. “Strong families use the word we a lot, but I is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that we have never followed before. The family message is, We’re behind you, so you can be you.”

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38. “A philosopher is a person who doesn’t care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.”

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39. “Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “There’s a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they’re willing to spend on it.”

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

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46. “Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.”

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47. “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.”

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

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49. “Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.”

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50. “Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.”

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