Dr Phil McGraw

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

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

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?

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

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

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.