Words matter. These are the best Phil McGraw Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
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.
Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you’re not going to get anywhere.
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.
Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?
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 just am not good at math.
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.
Well, let me tell you, if you’re 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you’re not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That’s a media-driven ideal that you’re never going to healthfully obtain.
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
There are some sick people in this world.
I mean, I’m very, very competitive.
Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourself.
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.
I’ve talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they’re judged. They think they’re unattractive.
What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.
You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.
People are used to being coddled.
Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of normal, actually.
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.
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.
I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’
As parents we’re not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
It’s great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won’t; it’s up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
God is a loving god.
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.
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.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.
You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.
You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
I’m not a politician.
I think I’ve got the best staff in television.
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 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.
If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
We teach people how to treat us.
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.
It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.
If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
