Quotes About Examples

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

Have good examples and stories to drive home your content.

Look at Israel. Israel is a great country for examples on how to do security.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

Religion is not the tame and sleepy thing which some suppose. This misapprehension is derived partly from erroneous views of doctrine, but yet more from the examples of actual Christianity among us, which fall so far short of the biblical standard.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

there is no circumstance, in all the contradictions of our most mysterious nature, that appears to be more humiliating than the use we are disposed to make of those sad examples which seem purposely marked for our correction and improvement.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.