Dr Phil McGraw

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

Indulgence doesn’t prepare, indulgence can cripple a child because the world won’t indulge her.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?

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

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.