Dr Phil McGraw

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

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.

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

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t, either.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

The things you own end up owning you.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I don’t write letters anymore.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

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