Dr Phil McGraw

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.

Now ask yourself if you’re really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won’t. So, that means you might lose weight while you’re on it, but you’ll probably gain it back when you’re off it because you haven’t made any real lifestyle changes.

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

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.