Dr. Phil Quotes - Dr. Phil McGraw Quotes

I'll promise you the worst possible thing we can ever do, is have suffering with no meaning and no purpose.

Dr. Phil McGraw



The most critical choice you'll ever make is the one you make about what you're going to do with this. The past is over. The future hasn't happened yet. The only time is now.

Dr. Phil McGraw



So sometimes you have to give yourself what you wish you had gotten from mom or dad.

Dr. Phil McGraw

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

Dr. Phil McGraw



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

Dr. Phil McGraw



It's time to get real!

Dr. Phil McGraw



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

Dr. Phil McGraw



We teach people how to treat us.

Dr. Phil McGraw



I’m pretty passionate about things I do, and particularly at this age, because I don’t have to do the things I don’t want to, and I’ve got more things that I do want to do than I can do.

Dr. Phil McGraw



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.

Dr. Phil McGraw



I am so committed to delivering the information, the stimulation, getting people thinking, get them talking, getting them moving, get them into changing in their lives that I just get absorbed into that, and I forget that we're on television.

Dr. Phil McGraw



I think we pull the trigger on divorce in America way too quickly. I think if you're going to get a divorce, you've got to earn your way out, and that means you've got to do all the work. You have to turn over every stone, investigate every avenue of rehabilitation you can before you quit.

Dr. Phil McGraw





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

Dr. Phil McGraw



Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Awareness without action is worthless.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Failure is no accident.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Get up each morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and see yourself not as someone who is overweight or out of shape, but as the someone you will become.

Dr. Phil McGraw



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

Dr. Phil McGraw



Life is a marathon, it's not a sprint.

Dr. Phil McGraw



Obesity has overtaken cancer as the No. 1 cause of avoidable, preventable death in American society. It's an epidemic-level problem.

Dr. Phil McGraw



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

Dr. Phil McGraw



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

Dr. Phil McGraw

Sometimes you've just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Dr. Phil McGraw



The most you get is what you ask for.

Dr. Phil McGraw



The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

Dr. Phil McGraw





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.

Dr. Phil McGraw



You have the duty and gift of living. You don't have the right to sit on the sidelines--use your life and get back into the game.

Dr. Phil McGraw



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

Dr. Phil McGraw



But I can tell you that I have a serious commitment that parents need to do whatever they can to protect children, sometimes from themselves.

Dr. Phil McGraw

When you don't respond to what happens in the world, you don't respond to what people say to you. What you do is respond to what you say to yourself about what they say to you. It's all about you, it's not about them.

Dr. Phil McGraw



If you are going to trust somebody, trust yourself, not somebody that doesn't seem to have your best interest at heart.

Dr. Phil McGraw



One of the things I believe is that we're in the biggest teen crisis in the history of this country.

Dr. Phil McGraw