Example
- Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.--Henry Wheeler Shaw ( The Complete Works of Josh Billings)
- Aristotle said that in order for people to become virtuous, we need role models — others who have developed their capacities for courage, self-control, wisdom, and justice.--Barry Magid (Tricycle)
- As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the slights of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.--Francesco Guicciardini
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.--Stephen Jobs
- The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent tolerance; to a friend your heart; to your child a good example; to a father deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself respect; and to all men charity.--Frances Balfour (Maitland)
- Children have more need of models than of critics.--Carolyn Coats
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.--James Baldwin
- Children need models rather than critics.--Joseph Joubert
- Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.--Robert Fulghum
- Education consists of example and love--nothing else.--Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.--Christian Nevell Bovee
- Example is always more efficacious than precept.--Samuel Johnson (Rasselas)
- Example is contagious behavior.—-Charles Reade
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others--it's the only thing.--Albert Schweitzer
- Example is the best precept.--Aesop ("The Two Crabs" Fables)
- Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.--Warren Bennis
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.--Mark Twain (Pudd'nhead Wilson)
- For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.--Elizabeth Blackwell
- A good example is the best sermon.--Thomas Fuller
- He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both...--Francis Bacon
- Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.--Daniel J. Boorstin (The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America)
- I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.--Dizzy Gillespie
- I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.--Thomas Jefferson
- I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.--Mario Cuomo
- If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.--Bill Pollard
- In the years since I began following the ways of my grandmothers I have come to value the teachings, stories, and daily examples of living which they shared with me. I pity the younger girls f the future who will miss out on meeting some of these fine old women.--Beverly Hungry Wolf
- The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.--Benjamin Disraeli
- Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.--Abraham Lincoln (Speech, 21 Mar 1864)
- Mankind has advanced in the footsteps of men and women of unshakable faith. Many of the great ones ... have set stars in the heavens to light others through the night.--Olga Rosmanith
- Many candles can be kindled from one candle without dimminishing it.--The Midrash
- The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person... who is worthy of emulation.--Paul D. Shafer
- Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.--Richelle E. Goodrich (Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year)
- A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.--Mrs. H. O. Ward
- No reproof or denunciation is so perfect as the silent influence of a good example.--Maturin Ballou
- Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.--Chinese proverb
- Nothing is so contagious as example, and our every really good or bad action inspires a similar one.--François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (Maxims)
- The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.--Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.--Walt Disney
- People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.--Tyron Edwards
- People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.--Oliver Goldsmith
- The personal example you set will do more to convince someone than all the eloquent speeches in the world.--Catherine Pulsifer (Your Example)
- Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.--Albert Einstein (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.--Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack)
- So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.--Elbert Hubbard
- Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.--Lemony Snicket (Who Could That Be at This Hour?)
- Things to remember: 1) The worth of character; 2) The improvement of talent; 3) The influence of example; 4) The joy of origination; 5) The dignity of simplicity; 6) The success of perseverance.--Marshall Field
- To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.--Samuel Smiles
- We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.--Lord Chesterfield
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