Phil McGraw
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.Collection: Alone
I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.Collection: Diet
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.Collection: New
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.Collection: Marriage
You're only lonely if you're not there for you.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Truth
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.Collection: Fear
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.Collection: Parenting
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.Collection: Teacher
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Failure
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.Collection: Marriage
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
We teach people how to treat us.
You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.
Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.
Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
Awareness without action is worthless.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The most you get is what you ask for.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
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.
The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
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.
Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.
I'm not a politician.
I mean, I'm very, very competitive.
I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.
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.
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
There are some sick people in this world.
I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
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.
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.
There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.
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.
I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.
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.
God is a loving god.
I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.
I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?