Johann Georg von Zimmermann Famous Quotes
"Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy."
"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great."
"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement."
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann Quotations
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
Sally Koch
"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge."
Napolean Hill
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
"If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else..an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong."
Anthony de Mello
With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
French Proverb
"In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace."
Louise Erdrich
"It's not the rules and regulations you follow carefully that will win you favor with God but rather offering your life to Him in complete faith that His Son, Jesus Christ, conquered sin and death on your behalf and for your salvation."
James L Mathews
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."
Hellen Keller
"If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average."
M H Alderson
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher