Phil McGraw People Quotations

My dad used to say that the holidays are when you get a whole bunch of people that really aren't that close and don't know each other that well and overcrowd them into a small room for an extended period of time so they can make each other miserable.

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.

There are some sick people in this world.

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.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

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 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.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Do it! People who succeed don't just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they're looking for.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

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

People create their own experiences.

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

We teach people how to treat us.

What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

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.

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

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