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’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
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
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
I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president. – Phil McGraw
I think you’re running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, ‘Brace yourself honey, here I come!’ – Phil McGraw
The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do! – Phil McGraw
I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to. – Phil McGraw
When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit. – Phil McGraw
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
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
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. – Phil McGraw
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt. – Phil McGraw
