Phil McGraw Quotes


"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
(Related: Love, Will)

"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Home, Children, Competition, Information, Internet, Voice)

"The most you get is what you ask for."
- Phil McGraw
"The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!"
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Men, Time, Women)

"Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you."
- Phil McGraw
"You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Horses)

"There are some sick people in this world."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: People, World)

"You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt."
- Phil McGraw
"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Body, Listening)

"You're only lonely if you're not there for you."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Lonely)

"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."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Truth, Right)

"Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?"
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Life, Play)

"A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Now, Right)

"We teach people how to treat us."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: People)

"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Dad, Thought, People, Worry)

"Awareness without action is worthless."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Action, Awareness)

"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."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Children, Guilt, Living)

"I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'"
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Idea, Running, Trouble)

"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
(Related: Time, Eye)

"I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Man, President)

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Want)

"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."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Marriage, Abortion, Americans, Country, Gay, Research)

"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else."
- Phil McGraw
"It's hard to see your own face without a mirror."
- Phil McGraw
"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."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Life, People, Day, End, Living)