Dr Phil McGraw

Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Everything in life I’ve worked hard for; what makes you think I’d do you different?

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.