Dr Phil McGraw

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

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.

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy… The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

God is a loving god.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

I don’t write letters anymore.

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.

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

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

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

I know that god is real. I have seen him smile through the sunlight as it dances across your skin and lays gently at your feet.