Dr Phil McGraw

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

There is nothing so stable as change.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

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.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?