Dr Phil McGraw

You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

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?

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

Common sense needs to be more common.

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.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.