Phil McGraw 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.

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.

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

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

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.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

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.

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

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

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

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

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.

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

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

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Stand up and walk out of your history

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.

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

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

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

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

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

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

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.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

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

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

Life is not a success only journey.

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

There is power in forgiveness.

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

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

We teach people how to treat us.

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

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

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

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

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

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

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

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

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger

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

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

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

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

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