Dr Phil McGraw

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

You can’t change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

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

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

And of all the things I look forward to in life, falling in love with you is at the top of the list.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.