Dr Phil McGraw

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

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.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

You would worry less about what people think, if you knew how little they did.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Insight emerges out of silence.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.