Quotes About Exemplar

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

He was the one I compared all others to.

The main function of myth is to determine the exemplar models of all ritual, and of all significant human acts.

If you can't be a good example then you'll have to be a terrible warning.

Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

I'm no role model.

We need to have our children look up to real role models.

Role models are important and if you see it you can be it.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

That standard is Jesus Christ. He is our banner.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

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

A good example is the best sermon.

If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

Every team has a person who is used as a reference, a player who stands out more than others.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

Reply to Objection 5: As was said above, the parts of the universe are ordered to each other, according as one acts on the other, and according as one is the end and exemplar of the other. But, as was said above, this can only happen to evil as joined to some good. Hence evil neither belongs to the perfection of the universe, nor does it come under the order of the same, except accidentally, that is, by reason of some good joined to it.

Cuando veas un hombre bueno, trata de imitarle; cuando veas a uno malo, examínate a ti mismo

We cannot behave "on the spot" as he did and taught if in the rest of our time we live as everybody else does.

Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.

For me, 'The Hobbit' is an object lesson in storytelling, both in terms of characterization and story structure. It is an exemplar of storytelling in that regard.