Dr Phil McGraw

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value.

This is no dress rehearsal.

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

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

The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I comfortable with everything – say whatever you want.

You have to name it to claim it.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.