Top 450 Bryant McGill Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.”

— Bryant McGill

302. “Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.”

— Bryant McGill

303. “People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.”

— Bryant McGill

304. “Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

305. “Want is an empty void – your real value is full and abundant.”

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

309. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— 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. “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

316. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— 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. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

333. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

336. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

339. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

342. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

344. “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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Bryant McGill

347. “Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.”

— Bryant McGill

348. “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

349. “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

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

— Bryant McGill