Bryant H. McGill Quotes

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

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

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.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Your attitudes contain your future.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

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

Self-made men often worship their creator.

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

Dare to love every person, including yourself. Become the energy of love.

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

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.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

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

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

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

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

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

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

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

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.

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

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

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

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

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

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

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

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

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

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

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

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

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.

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.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

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 essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

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?

* What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind. It leads you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

We love most those who we serve most.