Quotes about example

Example is the best precept.

— Aesop

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

— Barbara De Angelis

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

— Hosea Ballou

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

— Andre Breton

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

— Phillips Brooks

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other

— Edmund Burke

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

— Confucius

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

— George Eliot

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing preaches better than the act.

— Benjamin Franklin

Well done, is better than well said.

— Benjamin Franklin

He teaches me to be good that does me good.

— Thomas Fuller

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

— Stanley C. Gault

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

— Theodore M. Hesburgh

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

— Eric Hoffer

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

— Samuel Johnson

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

— Harper Lee

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

— Henry Miller

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

— Dwight L. Moody

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

— Thomas Morell

A young girl was asked: Whose preaching brought you to Christ? It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing, he replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

— George E. Mueller

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.

— Scottie Pippen

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

— Paula Poundstone

Precept guides, but example draws.

— Proverb

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

— Proverb

Practice what you preach.

— Proverb

You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself.

— Martin Rutte

Example is leadership.

— Albert Schweitzer

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

— Albert Schweitzer

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

— Seneca

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

— Don Shula

Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.

— William J. Toms

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

— Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

— Mark Twain

Don't be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals.

— Source Unknown

A good example is the best sermon.

— Source Unknown

Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

— Source Unknown

Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy.

— Source Unknown

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

— Source Unknown

Live as you wish your kids would.

— Source Unknown

Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it

— Source Unknown

Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.

— Source Unknown

Produce great men, the rest follows.

— Walt Whitman

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

— Brigham Young

Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the

— Edward Young