48 Phil McGraw Quotes on Life & Behavior (CHANGE)

Top 10 Most Famous Phil McGraw Quotes (BEST)

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

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are. — Life’s **challenges** are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.

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.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration. — Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, **fear** and frustration.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power. — When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

You have to create your own destiny. If you don't, someone else will. — You have to create your own **destiny**. If you don’t, someone else will.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it. — In life you have three options with any situation that is a **challenge**. Remove yourself from the situation, **change** it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome! — Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

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

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do. — The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

16 Deep Phil McGraw Quotes that will Make You Think

“At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?”
Phil McGraw

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. — 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.

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

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

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

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

Life's managed, not cured. — Life’s managed, not cured.

“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.”
Phil McGraw

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. — It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is. — The **truth** doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you. — You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms — Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?

6 Inspirational Phil McGraw Quotes About Change

“You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.”
Phil McGraw

Awareness without action is worthless. — Awareness without **action** is worthless.

You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. — You cannot **change** what you do not acknowledge.

Change can come in either of two important ways start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively. — **Change** can come in either of two important ways: start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering. — Everyone faces the **challenge** of finding meaning to their suffering.

If what you're doing isn't working, change it. — If what you’re doing isn’t working, **change** it.

9 Wise Phil McGraw Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

“Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.”
Phil McGraw

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

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there. — Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle. — If you need a **miracle**, be a miracle.

“There is no reality, only perception. There is no failure, only feedback. There are no limits, only plateaus. There are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.”
Phil McGraw

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan. — Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

You wouldn’t care so much about what people think about you if you knew how little they did.

3 Funny Phil McGraw Quotes

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken! — You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich. — You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Learn when's a good time to shut up. — Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

4 Phil McGraw Quotes on Love & Relationships

“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.”
Phil McGraw