Dr Phil McGraw

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you’re not going to get anywhere.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

Well, let me tell you, if you’re 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you’re not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That’s a media-driven ideal that you’re never going to healthfully obtain.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

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

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Don’t worry about things you cannot alter.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

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.