Dr Phil McGraw

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

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

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

That dog don’t hunt.

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.