Dr Phil McGraw

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

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.

People create their own experiences.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

I don’t write letters anymore.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don’t like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

Instinct is probably the essence of past experience and knowledge stored up for later use. There are many, you know, who think that this life journey through the world is not the first one we have made. Haven’t you ever come across children who knew things that it was impossible for them to have learned? Have you ever gone to a place for the first time and felt sure that you had been there before? That’s one of the reasons I do not travel much.

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

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.