Best Phil Mcgraw Quotes & Sayings

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise. — Phil McGraw

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it. — Phil McGraw

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. — Phil McGraw

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results. — Phil McGraw

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don't stop until you've filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don't need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends' accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want. — Phil McGraw

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together. — Phil McGraw

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK. — Phil McGraw

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. — Phil McGraw

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. — Phil McGraw

I think I've got the best staff in television. — Phil McGraw

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self. — Phil McGraw

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

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. — Phil McGraw

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. — Phil McGraw

Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday? — Phil McGraw

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now. — Phil McGraw

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. — Phil McGraw

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little. — Phil McGraw

Common sense needs to be more common. — Phil McGraw

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own. — Phil McGraw

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. — Phil McGraw

We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life. — Phil McGraw

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self. — Phil McGraw

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down
and they will
even your best-laid plans will fall flat. — Phil McGraw

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. — Phil McGraw

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. — Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. — Phil McGraw

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them. — Phil McGraw

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms? — Phil McGraw

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out. — Phil McGraw

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing. — Phil McGraw

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all. — Phil McGraw

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah. — Phil McGraw

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. — Phil McGraw

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving. — Phil McGraw

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. — Phil McGraw

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself. — Phil McGraw

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken! — Phil McGraw

You have to name it to claim it — Phil McGraw

There is power in forgiveness. — Phil McGraw

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. — Phil McGraw

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome! — Phil McGraw