Quotes About Exemplar

My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it.

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

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

I love Adam Gemili - he's the guy kids should aspire to be like.

You can't have a greater person to emulate your game around than Scottie Pippen.

The truth is that if Jesus be merely an example, He is not a worthy example; for He claimed to be far more.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like unto him thereby.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

leftist threats of redistribution had installed him as potentate redux, a starched-collar exemplar in the face of socialism's hectoring witch.

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

The point of an exemplar is not that he or she is to be emulated, but that this person, in virtue of being farther along a path you aspire to go down, somehow understands you better than you understand yourself—at least at the beginning.

Joseph—foster father to a fatherless world, living icon of the Father.

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.