Dr Phil McGraw

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

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

I’m not a politician.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.