Phil McGraw famous quotes

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

#Thinking #People #Choices

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.
-- Phil McGraw

#Years #People #One Day

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
-- Phil McGraw

#Determination #Dragons #Hiking

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.
-- Phil McGraw

#Helping #Self Help #Acknowledge

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

#Teacher #Teaching #Eye

Stand up and walk out of your history
-- Phil McGraw

#Moving Forward #Moving #Walks

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Horse #Who I Am #Lines

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
-- Phil McGraw

#Single #Being Single #Sick

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
-- Phil McGraw

#Encouragement #Decision #Sometimes

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

#Yesterday #Want #Today

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
-- Phil McGraw

#Games #Play #Realizing

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

#New Year #Years

Awareness without action is worthless.
-- Phil McGraw

#Action #Awareness #Worthless

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
-- Phil McGraw

#Successful #Loss #Weight

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Heart #Thinking #People

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
-- Phil McGraw

#Encouragement #Ambition #Want

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
-- Phil McGraw

#Heartbroken #Grief #Healing

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
-- Phil McGraw

#Fun #Smart #Self Esteem

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

#Successful #People #Want

If what you're doing isn't working, change it.
-- Phil McGraw

#Inspirational

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

Common sense needs to be more common.
-- Phil McGraw

#Common Sense #Needs #Common

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
-- Phil McGraw

#Bullying #Home #Bully

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Kids #Law #Broken

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.
-- Phil McGraw

#Self #Support #Definitions

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.
-- Phil McGraw

#Marathon #Sprint

This is no dress rehearsal.
-- Phil McGraw

#Dresses #Rehearsal

Learn when's a good time to shut up
-- Phil McGraw

#Good Times #Shut Up

You have to name it to claim it
-- Phil McGraw

#Names #Claims

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.
-- Phil McGraw

#Healing #Conflict #Disguise

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Meaningful #Thinking #People

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Jobs #Husband #Kids

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.
-- Phil McGraw

#Running #Fall #Trying

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

#People #Vulnerable #Who You Are

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.
-- Phil McGraw

#Powerful #Kids #Acceptance

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

#Mean #Want

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

#Style #Trying #Influence

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
-- Phil McGraw

#Waiting #Come Up #Crisis

We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.
-- Phil McGraw

#Life #Children #Voice

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Feet #Trying #Mask

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
-- Phil McGraw

#Money #Trying #Debt

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
-- Phil McGraw

#Believe #Men #President

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.
-- Phil McGraw

#People #Goal #Expectations

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Children #Thinking #Parent

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Marriage #People #Fundamentals

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.
-- Phil McGraw

#Loyalty #Together #Firsts

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Self #Giving #World

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.
-- Phil McGraw

#Family #Mean #Healthy

This is your life and the clock is ticking.
-- Phil McGraw

#Life #Clock

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

#Differences #Want #Loser

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
-- Phil McGraw

#Pain #Pay

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

#Sports #Boards #Life Is

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
-- Phil McGraw

I think I've got the best staff in television.
-- Phil McGraw

#Thinking #Television #Staff

I just am not good at math.
-- Phil McGraw

#Math

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.
-- Phil McGraw

#Honor #Employment #Selling