Example Quotes

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

A good example has twice the value of good advice

A good example is the best sermon.

Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

If you set the example you will not have to set the rules.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

The best that a parent can be... A demonstrator... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.

Attract them by the way you live.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

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

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better." -said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.

It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention to how you feel and practice self-empowering thoughts that align with who you really are, you will offer an example of thriving that will be of tremendous value to those who have the benefit of observing you.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Nothing is so catching as example.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

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

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

The wise cares about everyone, and he becomes an example to all.

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.