Dr Phil McGraw

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

God is a loving god.

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.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

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.

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, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

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

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

All systems either of preference or of restraint … completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.

And you know, two heads are better than one.

As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.