Phil McGraw

I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade.

Phil McGraw

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

Phil McGraw

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Phil McGraw

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

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Phil McGraw

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.

Phil McGraw

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

Phil McGraw

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

Phil McGraw

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Phil McGraw

If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.

Phil McGraw