Dr Phil McGraw

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

There are some sick people in this world.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

Do it! People who succeed don’t just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they’re looking for.

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.

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.

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness