Dr Phil McGraw

First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

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.

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

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

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.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.