Dr Phil McGraw

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

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.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

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

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

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

I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.