Dr Phil McGraw

You’re FAT – and don’t try to sugarcoat it, because you’ll just eat that, too.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we’re capable of.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.