Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

I think I've been quite lucky in that I haven't had to make too many changes to myself. Obviously, there have been adaptations and things that I've altered, but I haven't changed completely. I've stayed myself.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Accept yourself and expect more from yourself.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

We do not have to make it perfect; we just have to do as best we can.