Bryant H. McGill Quotes

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

A happy life is a life for others.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another.

True humility means giving joy to others.

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

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

The idea of community and helping others has always been a part of who I am. Growing up, my parents always made sure that my siblings and I were doing our part to serve our local community.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.