Phil McGraw

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.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

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.

The most you get is what you ask for.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

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.

We teach people how to treat us.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

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.

I just am not good at math.

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.

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.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

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.

People are used to being coddled.

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.

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

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.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

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.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

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.

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!

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

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.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

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

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Awareness without action is worthless.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

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

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

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

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

There are some sick people in this world.

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.