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Get Inspired with 10 Powerful Joyce Brothers Quotes

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Joyce Brothers, PhD, is one of United States' leading family psychologists and advice columnists, publishing a daily syndicated newspaper column since 1960. She was the host of her own television program, has published several best-selling books, and continues to appear on television, radio, and in film both as an expert in psychology.

Get inspired and motivated today with 10 of the most popular Joyce Brothers quotes below.

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

2. "The best proof of love is trust."

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

4. "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."

5. "There is such a thing as bad publicity."

6. "No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."

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

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

9. "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."

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

What is your favorite Joyce Brothers quote? Did you favorite not make this list? Be sure to share it in the comments!

Here's to an inspired day and an inspired life!

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Dr. Joyce Brothers gained fame in 1955 by winning The $64,000 Question game show, on which she appeared as an expert in the subject area of boxing.

Dr. Brothers had a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine for almost four decades and is a bestselling author and radio and TV personality, having appeared in programs including Mama's Family, The Naked Gun, The Nanny, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Married... with Children, The Simpsons, All That, Kenan & Kel, Frasier and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. She also appeared as an occasional celebrity guest on game shows such as Match Game, the 1968 revival of What's My Line? and Hollywood Squares.

She earned her PhD in psychology from Columbia University after completing her undergraduate work at Cornell University, where she was a member of Sigma Delta Tau sorority.

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