Quotes from Phil McGraw

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

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

Learn when's a good time to shut up

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

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.

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.

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

Awareness without action is worthless.

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!

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

There are some sick people in this world.

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

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

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

We teach people how to treat us.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

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

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.

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

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

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.

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.