Phil McGraw Quotes

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

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.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

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

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

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.

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

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.

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.

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

Stand up and walk out of your history

We teach people how to treat us.

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.

If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.