Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Nobody is powerless.

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically a victim's position, giving power to people and things outside of ourselves. We are beginning to realize that the power rests in us, that we can choose to create our life the way we want it to be.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Self Emancipation

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.