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Practice what you preach.
Proverb
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
Precept guides, but example draws.
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson
Some old poet's grand imagination is imposed on us as adamantine everlasting truth, and God's own word! Pythagoras says, truly enough, A true assertion respecting God, is an assertion of God; but we may well doubt if there is any example of this in literature.
Henry David Thoreau
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
Bertrand Russell
I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.
Scottie Pippen
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer
All these examples of wretchedness prove his greatness. It is the wretchedness of a great lord, the wretchedness of a dispossessed king.
Blaise Pascal
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country.
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
