Quote

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Mignon McLaughlin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Self
People
Orchards
Orchard
Trees
Confidence
Tree
Grows

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The plague of government is senile delinquency.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin