Dr Phil Mcgraw Quotes

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

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.

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

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

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

Common sense needs to be more common.

We teach people how to treat us

The most you get is what you ask for.

You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

There are some sick people in this world

This is no dress rehearsal.

You can't change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. —DR. PHIL MCGRAW

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. —Dr. Phil McGraw

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

Smugglin' that by me? That's like tryin' to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn't be necessary.

A love-based psychology views social prejudice as impacting people's well-being, and the promotion of social justice as an important psychological intervention.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you'll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

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.

Let your life be a living example of what you want to see in your children.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I would rather have a set of questions that we haven't found the answers for, yet, than having a whole set of answers that I'm not even permitted to challenge, questions, dig in on.