Quotes About Example

It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.

Live as if your life has become an example of goodness for others to follow.

Do as I do, not as I say -- observance often tells me more.

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

Children need models rather than critics.

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

Be an example, be positive, be enthusiastic, be proactive--that is proactive leadership.

To best influence someone's behavior, be a personal example. - Be the one who points out the bright side and serves compliments rather than complaints.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.

The essence of civilization is that men should come to be led more by hope and ambition and example and less by fear.

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.