McG Quotes

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don't leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don't affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.

When we feel pressured to have achieved certain things by a particular age, it could ultimately hinder us. It's great to have goals but those specific benchmarks can easily become irrelevant once you ask yourself, 'where am I having the most impact?' 'Am I going after the stories I want to tell?'

You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

No critic ever changed the world.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.

I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.

Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

Focus on the impact you make versus the title you have.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.