Phil McGraw Quotes

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

The majority of decisions, I've always taken by myself.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you're happy with the decisions you're making and that it's the best for you.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I enjoy making the decisions.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count.