Dr Phil McGraw

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Failure is no accident.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I don’t write letters anymore.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

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

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.