Dr Phil McGraw

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

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Enjoy what other people do and learn from them.

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

A man is as old as his arteries.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

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

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.