Dr Phil McGraw

I would rather be healthy alone, then sick with someone else.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

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.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

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.

A goal is a dream with a finish line.

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.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.