Dr Phil McGraw

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

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.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

Stand up and walk out of your history.

This is no dress rehearsal.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I don’t like when there’s too much conversation because I’m shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

Always pack your uniform on top.

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

I have been at it ten years. I collect them so that they will not be lost to America. We have no Egyptian mummies here, nor any relics of the Battle of Waterloo nor any curios from Pompeii. It is strictly American.

People are used to being coddled.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.