Dr Phil McGraw

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

Failure is no accident.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

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

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.

When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

If gold rust what shall the iron do?

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

Common sense needs to be more common.