Dr Phil McGraw

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

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.

I mean, look, teachers don’t do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

There is nothing to search for; everything you seek is already within.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Many people seem to believe that Greenfield Village and the Edison Institute and Museum at Dearborn, with their specimens of earlier type of American life and industry, are just a kind of antiquarian hobby of mine. I do not deny that they have given me a great deal of interest and pleasure. But the project is vastly more than a hobby. It has very definite purposes, and I hope will have results lasting down the years. One purpose is to remind the public who visit it and sometimes there are thousands a day–of how farand how fast we have come in technical progress in the last century or so. If we have come so far and so fast, is it likely that we shall stop now?

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

Every success is the mother of countless others.