Bryant H. McGill Quotes
An American editor and author.
(1969 - )
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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.
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
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A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
[Ambition]
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American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
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An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
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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.
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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
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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.
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Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
[Creativity]
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Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
[Curiosity]
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
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Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
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Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
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Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
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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.
[Education]
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