Top 450 Bryant McGill Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Want is an empty void – your real value is full and abundant.”

— Bryant McGill

302. “Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

304. “Control is not humble; control is arrogant.”

— Bryant McGill

305. “We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.”

— Bryant McGill

306. “Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.”

— Bryant McGill

307. “The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.”

— Bryant McGill

308. “The common person fears to think beyond the common.”

— Bryant McGill

309. “By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.”

— Bryant McGill

310. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

311. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

312. “No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.”

— Bryant McGill

313. “Love softens the hardest edges of life’s tumult.”

— Bryant McGill

314. “Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity’s great afflictions.”

— Bryant McGill

315. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

317. “National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.”

— Bryant McGill

318. “Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

321. “If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

322. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

323. “There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.”

— Bryant McGill

324. “The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.”

— Bryant McGill

325. “Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

327. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

328. “Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

330. “There is no happiness outside of ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

331. “To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose, is a simple matter of creating those blessings for others.”

— Bryant McGill

332. “Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

334. “People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

336. “We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.”

— Bryant McGill

337. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

338. “We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

340. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

341. “Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.”

— Bryant McGill

342. “If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.”

— Bryant McGill

343. “Love only serves and does not calculate.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

345. “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.”

— Bryant McGill

346. “Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.”

— Bryant McGill

347. “You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.”

— Bryant McGill

348. “The ignoramus crow of “love it or leave it” omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.”

— Bryant McGill

349. “You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill