A Quote by Angela Merkel

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Angela Merkel

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Always Appear More Never Than

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Angela Merkel
German - Statesman
Born: July 17, 1954

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space?space even more than time.

Henry Miller

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

William Whitelaw

Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

Robert Greene

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Epictetus

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Ron Gutman

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

Dave Barry

You are more than you appear to be - Life is greater than you have ever known it - The best is yet to come.

Ernest Holmes

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

John Lurie

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

John Lancaster Spalding

Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.

Henry B. Eyring

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

William Shenstone

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. ? On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one?s own advice.

Sam Harris

What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?