Albert Schweitzer
“Example is leadership.”
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Walt Whitman
"Produce great men, the rest follows."
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Author Unknown
“Example is better than law.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Example is leadership.”
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Christian Nevell Bovee
“Example has more followers than reason.”
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Author Unknown
"A good example is the best sermon."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing preaches better than the act."
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Thomas Fuller
"He teaches me to be good that does me good."
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Author Unknown
"A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice."
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Charles Reade
"Example is contagious behavior."
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Joseph Joubert
“Children have more need of models than of critics.”
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Author Unknown
“A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.”
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Thomas Morell
“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.”
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Author Unknown
“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”
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Edmund Burke
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
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Montaigne
“Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.”
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Theodore M. Hesburgh
"It is easier to exemplify values than teach them."
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Author Unknown
"Live as you wish your kids would."
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John 13:15
“For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.”
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Richard L. Evans
"We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are."
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Joseph Wirthlin
“Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.”
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Jude 1:7
Sodom and Gomorrha...are set forth for an example
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Author Unknown
"Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice."
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Author Unknown
“Don’t be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals.”
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Martin Rutte
“You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself.”
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Author Unknown
Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.
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Theodore M. Hesburgh
“It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.”
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Author Unknown
Precept guides, but example draws.
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Mark Twain
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
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Thomas Fuller
“He teaches me to be good who does me good.”
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Author Unknown
Reason is the wise man’s guide, example the fool’s.
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Seneca
“The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.”
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Juvenal
“We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.”
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Author Unknown
Live as you wish your kids would.
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Don Shula
“I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.”
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Mark Twain
“There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!”
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Benjamin Franklin
“Well done, is better than well said.”
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Confucius
“What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.”
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Theodor Herz
“Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.”
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Author Unknown
“Words are but dwarfs, examples are giants.”
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Aesop
“Example is the best precept.”
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Author Unknown
“Example is the greatest of all seducers.”
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Edmund Burke
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
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Author Unknown
"A good example is the best sermon."
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N. Eldon Tanner
"Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth…
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Thomas Morell
“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.”
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Author Unknown
“Nothing is more contagious than a bad example.”
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Oliver Goldsmith
“People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.”
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William J. Toms
“Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
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Oliver Goldsmith
"People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after."
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Author Unknown
"A good example has twice the value of good advice."
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Edmund Burke
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other"
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Thomas Morell
"The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example."
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Author Unknown
"An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching."
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Martin Rutte
"You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself."
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Seneca
"The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective."
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William J. Toms
"Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read."
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Confucius
"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."
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Edmund Burke
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
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H. W. Shaw
"Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves."
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Ron Paul
“Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.”
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Goldsmith
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."
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Robert Fulghum
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
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James Baldwin
“Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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Robert Cecil
“Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”
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Brigham Young
“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.”
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John 14:6
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
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Christian Nestell Bovee
“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
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Catherine Pulsifer
"What you have accomplished in the past is a much stronger example than talking about what you are capable of doing in the future."
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Author Unknown
"I've learned that children's eyes observe more than there ears ever hear and the example we set for them determines their actions."
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Hosea Ballou
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
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Acts 13:47
“For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.”
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Barbara De Angelis
"The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship."
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Christian Nevell Bovee
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
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Phillips Brooks
"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words."
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Stanley C. Gault
"You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others."
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1 Timothy 4:12
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"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."
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George Bernard Shaw
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example."
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Author Unknown
"Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners."
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Thomas Jefferson
“I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
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Phillips Brooks
“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”
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Author Unknown
“Children are natural mimics — they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.”
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John Christian Bovee
“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
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Author Unknown
“Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.”
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Andre Breton
“No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
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Matthew 5:16
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
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Barbara De Angelis
“The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.”
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1 Timothy 4:12
“Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
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Stanley C. Gault
“You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.”
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Author Unknown
"If the virtuous lock themselves up then only the wicked will roam free. Monks lock up virtue as if it were a savage.”
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Author Unknown
“We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends.”
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1 Peter 2:21
“For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.”
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Author Unknown
“A bible scholar was asked which of all th translations of the Bible he liked the best. His reply was that he liked his mothers translation best for she had translated it into her own life.”
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Sterling W. Sill
"We are all human magnets. Our deeds, attitudes and thoughts attract in kind. Gets back with interest exactly what he sends."
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H. Burke Peterson
“If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.”
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James 5:10
“Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.”
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Catherine Pulsifer
"One of the saddest examples is an employed person who has the opportunity to take course to improve his skills, but instead, does nothing until he finds he no longer has a job."
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Abraham Lincoln
“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.”
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Matthew 5:13
“Ye are the Salt of the Earth. Salt is a preservative, healing property, flavoring and it freezes ice cream while melting ice. Salt rusts things of the world. We also should be as valuable and as versatile.”
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Felix Adler
“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”
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Francis Bacon
“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”
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Joshua 24:15
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
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