Dr Phil McGraw

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

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

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

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.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak of yourself.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

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

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.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.