Dr Phil McGraw

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

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Get up each morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and see yourself not as someone who is overweight or out of shape, but as the someone you will become.

I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’

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.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.