Phil McGraw
I just am not good at math.
It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.
People are used to being coddled.
I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.Collection: Challenges
You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!Collection: Dog
You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.Collection: This Life
You can't change what you don't acknowledge.Collection: Helping
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.Collection: Years
Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.Collection: Taking The High Road
The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.Collection: Differences
If what you're doing isn't working, change it.Collection: Inspirational
Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.Collection: People
Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.Collection: Inspirational
Learn when's a good time to shut upCollection: Good Times
Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!Collection: Overcoming
When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.Collection: Giving
Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.Collection: Inspirational
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?Collection: Fun
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.Collection: Motivational
The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.Collection: Versions
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.Collection: Being Yourself
You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.Collection: Angry
Stand up and walk out of your historyCollection: Letting Go
People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.Collection: Heart
There is no reality, only perception.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Running
Life is not a success only journey.Collection: Journey
Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.Collection: Marriage
Know your goal, make a plan and pull the triggerCollection: Motivation
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.Collection: Self
Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Inspirational Life
Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won't get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.Collection: Heart
A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.Collection: Mother
Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.Collection: Inspirational
You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: People
You have to name it to claim itCollection: Names
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.Collection: Book
Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.Collection: Inspirational
Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?Collection: Yesterday
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.Collection: Success