Dr 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.

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.

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.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

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

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…