Phil McGraw Quotes

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Phil McGraw

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : September 1, 1950

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.

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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.

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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

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My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

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Awareness without action is worthless.

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You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

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You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

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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.

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You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

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

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Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

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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.

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Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

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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.

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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.

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We teach people how to treat us.

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The most you get is what you ask for.

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

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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.

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Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

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