Phil McGraw Quotes

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

People create their own experiences.

Common sense needs to be more common.

There are some sick people in this world.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don't stop until you've filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don't need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends' accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Life's managed, not cured.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

This is no dress rehearsal.

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

I just am not good at math.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourselves.

There is power in forgiveness.

If you marry for money you will earn every penny.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

Do it! People who succeed don't just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they're looking for.