Bryant H. McGill Literature Quotations

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.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

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

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

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

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.

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

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

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.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

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

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.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.