Quotes from Phil McGraw

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

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.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

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

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

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

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 ourself.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

if you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to have what you've always had.

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

you create the results in life that you believe you deserve.

Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!

The past is over, the future hasn't happened yet, the only time is right now. This can be your threshold moment of change. The next year of your life is going to go by whether you're doing something about your weight or not. Now

When you choose the behaviour, you choose the consequence.

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

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.

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.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.