Bryant H. McGill Quotes

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

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

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.

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.

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

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

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

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

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Acceptance is the road to all change.

Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

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.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

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

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.

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

All things are possible through invitation and love.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

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.

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

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

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

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.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

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

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

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

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

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.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

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

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

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

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

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

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