Top 450 Bryant McGill Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

202. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

203. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

204. “When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.”

— Bryant McGill

205. “You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours.”

— Bryant McGill

206. “No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.”

— Bryant McGill

207. “A person who wants nothing fears nothing.”

— Bryant McGill

208. “We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.”

— Bryant McGill

209. “We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

211. “Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.”

— Bryant McGill

212. “Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

214. “Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.”

— Bryant McGill

215. “If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.”

— Bryant McGill

216. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

217. “Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.”

— Bryant McGill

218. “The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.”

— Bryant McGill

219. “We love most those who we serve most.”

— Bryant McGill

220. “The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.”

— Bryant McGill

221. “We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.”

— Bryant McGill

222. “We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.”

— Bryant McGill

223. “Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.”

— Bryant McGill

224. “Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.”

— Bryant McGill

225. “Nothing GREAT ever happens from thinking SMALL.”

— Bryant McGill

226. “You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.”

— Bryant McGill

227. “Command the space of your beingness – a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

229. “The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

231. “We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.”

— Bryant McGill

232. “Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.”

— Bryant McGill

233. “Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions – which become your life.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

235. “The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.”

— Bryant McGill

236. “Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

238. “Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

240. “Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.”

— Bryant McGill

241. “Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.”

— Bryant McGill

242. “The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.”

— Bryant McGill

243. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

244. “When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

246. “The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are.”

— Bryant McGill

247. “We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

249. “Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity’s great aspirations.”

— Bryant McGill

250. “If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.”

— Bryant McGill