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.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

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

There are some sick people in this world

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

This is no dress rehearsal.

Awareness without action is worthless.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The definition of a friend is someone who’s coming in the door when everybody else is going out.” —Phil McGraw, psychologist

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

if you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will continue to have what you’ve always had.

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

You teach people how to treat you.” —Phil McGraw, psychologist

the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You’ve got to be your own best friend first.” —PHIL MCGRAW

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.

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

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 create the results in life that you believe you deserve.

The past is over, the future hasn’t happened yet, the only time is right now. This can be your threshold moment of change. The next year of your life is going to go by whether you’re doing something about your weight or not. Now,

Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.

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

Psychologist and New York Times best-selling author Phil McGraw states, “I always say that the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You’ve got to be your own best friend first.” How can you be “best friends” with someone you don’t know or don’t like? You can’t. That’s why it’s so important to find out who you are and work to become someone you like and respect.

When you choose the behaviour, you choose the consequence.

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.