Phil McGraw Quotes
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The most you get is what you ask for.
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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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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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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.
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You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!
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You can't change what you don't acknowledge.
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Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.
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Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
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Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.
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Awareness without action is worthless.
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Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
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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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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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The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.
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If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
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Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.
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You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.
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Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.
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Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourselves.
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Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration
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You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.
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Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger
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You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
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Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.
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When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.
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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.
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Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.
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A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.
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When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.
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Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
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