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Phil McGraw

15 quotes

The identity of Phil McGraw may be elusive, but the power of their words is anything but. The range of their thinking — from Marriage to Home — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 20 quotes from Phil McGraw, each offering a different angle on Marriage, Home, Alone, Truth, and Time. Among their most shared lines: "It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else."

“The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.”

— Phil McGraw

Home

All Quotes by Phil McGraw

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

— Phil McGraw

Dad

“You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.”

— Phil McGraw

Home

“A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.”

— Phil McGraw

Newyears

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

— Phil McGraw

Alone

“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

Teacher

“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.”

— Phil McGraw

Marriage

“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

Best

“The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.”

— Phil McGraw

Home

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

— Phil McGraw

Society

“You're only lonely if you're not there for you.”

— Phil McGraw

Alone

“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.”

— Phil McGraw

Marriage

“Food is a coping mechanism people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.”

— Phil McGraw

Food

“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

Failure

“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

Diet

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

— Phil McGraw

Fear