Example Quotes

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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are

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

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

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

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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

Thomas Jefferson

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You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and

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

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Nothing preaches better than the act.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Benjamin Franklin

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It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Theodore Hesburgh

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make t

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

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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example shor

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

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all sha

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

Michel de Montaigne

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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his s

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

Phillips Brooks

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

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

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

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

Albert Schweitzer

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A young girl was asked: Whose preaching brought you to Chris

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

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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, h

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

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A good example is the best sermon.

A good example is the best sermon.

Benjamin Franklin

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Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great go

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

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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answerin

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

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exempl

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.

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