Dr Phil McGraw

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

There is no reality, only perception.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

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

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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