Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

I learned that peace is prosperity and health is true wealth, and it is never too late to love yourself again.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

Stop your worrying, panicking and stressing. Breathe. Remember, you made it this far through difficulties that seemed impossible. Remember how many times you were saved at the very last minute
this time is no different.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

Acceptance is the road to all change.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.

The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.

It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

We love most those who we serve most.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.