Top 100 Phil McGraw Quotes
#1. If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
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#2. Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.
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#3. I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.
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#4. It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
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#5. Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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#6. You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.
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#7. 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.
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#8. You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.
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#9. Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.
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#12. When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.
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#13. What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.
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#14. I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
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#15. 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.
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#16. People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.
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#17. You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.
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#18. Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.
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#19. A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.
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#20. A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
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#21. People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.
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#22. if you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to have what you've always had.
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#23. I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.
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#24. Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.
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#27. I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.
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#28. Not everybody is some kind of media model.
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#29. You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.
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#30. I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'
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#31. Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.
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#33. As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
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#34. People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.
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#36. It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
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#37. This is your life and the clock is ticking.
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#38. If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
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#39. Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.
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#40. You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.
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#42. I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
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#46. I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
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#49. My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
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#50. If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
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#51. Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means.. the bottom line.. then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.
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#52. Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!
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#53. Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy ... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.
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#54. A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
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#55. 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.
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#56. Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
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#59. Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
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#60. Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.
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#62. It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
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#63. Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
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#64. 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.
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#65. I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.
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#66. 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!
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#67. I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.
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#68. Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
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#69. You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.
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#70. The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.
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#71. You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.
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#72. There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.
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#73. I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.
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#74. When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
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#75. If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.
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#77. Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.
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#78. We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.
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#79. Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.
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#80. Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
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#81. There are some sick people in this world.
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#82. You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
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#83. 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.
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#84. Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
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#85. You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
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#86. At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
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#87. Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.
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#88. You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
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#89. The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
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#90. If you marry for money you will earn every penny.
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#91. Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.
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#92. I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.
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#93. You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
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#94. Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.
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#96. It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
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#97. You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!
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#98. If what you're doing isn't working, change it.
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#99. We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
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#100. Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?
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