Bryant H. McGill Quotes

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

I make moves on my terms.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

I am in charge. I take my own power back.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I'll succeed,' Hazel promised. 'And Hecate? I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own.

I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

I have my own strength.