Phil McGraw Quotes

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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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  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.

  Phil McGraw

  Determination, Dragons, Hiking

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

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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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• Learn when's a good time to shut up

  Phil McGraw

  Good Times, Shut Up

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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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• 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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• Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Vulnerable, Knows

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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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• 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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• Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy... The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

  Phil McGraw

  Motivational, Fighting, Winning

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• Stand up and walk out of your history

  Phil McGraw

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Moving

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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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• 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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• 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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• Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Goal, Expectations

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

  Phil McGraw

  Teacher, Teaching, Eye

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

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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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• 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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• People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

  Phil McGraw

  Years, People, One Day

  "Dr. Phil: Oprah Is 'The Gold Standard In TV'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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

  Phil McGraw

  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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• 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.

  Phil McGraw

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

  Phil McGraw

  Encouragement, Decisions You Make, Making Choices

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

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