Dr Phil McGraw

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

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.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

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.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

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

A h** neva gets cold

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

There are some sick people in this world.