Dr Phil McGraw

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

Now ask yourself if you’re really going to spend the rest of your life on one of those ridiculous diets. The honest answer is, no, you won’t. So, that means you might lose weight while you’re on it, but you’ll probably gain it back when you’re off it because you haven’t made any real lifestyle changes.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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?

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action!

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.