Phil McGraw Quotes

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• In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

  Phil McGraw

  Challenges, Three, Accepting

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

  Phil McGraw

  Thinking, People, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

  Phil McGraw

  Overcoming, Proud, Ashamed

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• If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

  Phil McGraw

  Years, Months, Week

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

  Phil McGraw

  Dog, Chickens, Feathers

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

  Phil McGraw

  Differences, Want, Loser

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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

  Phil McGraw

  Helping, Self Help, Acknowledge

  Phil McGraw (2015). “The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality”, p.32, Bird Street Books

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• 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.

  Phil McGraw

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

  Phil McGraw

  Taking The High Road, Traffic, High Road

  "Dr. Phil’s Dos and Don’ts For Co-Parenting With Your Ex". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2014.

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• Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

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  Inspirational, Two, Important

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• We teach people how to treat us.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Treats, Teach

  "Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters". Book by Phil McGraw, January 7, 1999.

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• You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.

  Phil McGraw

  Angry

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• Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

  Phil McGraw

  Success, Understanding, Important

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

  Phil McGraw

  Encouragement, Ambition, Ambitious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

  Phil McGraw

  Powerful, Kids, Acceptance

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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

  Phil McGraw

  Yesterday, Want, Today

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• At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

  Phil McGraw

  Fun, Smart, Self Esteem

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

  Phil McGraw

  Real, People, Heartless

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• Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

  Phil McGraw

  Authority, Ultimatum, Deals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

  Phil McGraw

  Heartbroken, Grief, Healing

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• Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

  Phil McGraw

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Healing, Conflict

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• 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.

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  Being Yourself, Giving, World

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

  Phil McGraw

  Giving, Upset, Persons

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