Top 120 Phillip C. McGraw Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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2. “This is your life and the clock is ticking.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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3. “You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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4. “The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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5. “Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

6. “If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

7. “There is no reality, only perception.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

8. “Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

9. “A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

10. “Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

11. “People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

12. “Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

13. “Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!”

— Phillip C. McGraw

14. “We teach people how to treat us.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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

— Phillip C. McGraw

16. “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.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

17. “Stand up and walk out of your history.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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18. “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.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

19. “Awareness without action is worthless.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

20. “You teach people how to treat you.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

21. “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.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

22. “Learn when’s a good time to shut up.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

23. “You wouldnt care so much about what people think about you if you knew how little they did.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

24. “If you marry for money you will earn every penny.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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

— Phillip C. McGraw

26. “Life is not a success only journey.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

27. “Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

28. “You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

29. “If you need a miracle, be a miracle.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

30. “There are some sick people in this world.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

31. “You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

32. “You have to name it to claim it.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

33. “There is power in forgiveness.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

34. “Life is managed; it is not cured.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

35. “You create the results in life that you believe you deserve. – DR. PHIL MCGRAW.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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

— Phillip C. McGraw

37. “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.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

38. “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.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

39. “Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

40. “When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

41. “Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

42. “Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

43. “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.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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

— Phillip C. McGraw

45. “It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

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

— Phillip C. McGraw

47. “Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

48. “Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

49. “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.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

50. “This is no dress rehearsal.”

— Phillip C. McGraw