Phil McGraw Quotes

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

Life Is Managed; It Is Not Cured.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.

Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger

You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.

Life is not a success only journey.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.

The most you get is what you ask for.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

We teach people how to treat us.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.