Quotes About Example

no man is ever a complete failure. He can always serve as a horrible example!

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other. — St. Thomas More

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

thing we can do for the young is set an example,' said Oliver slowly. 'I discovered that long ago. They don't listen to us, they find most of what we have to say at best tedious and at worst inane. We can influence them simply by what we do and how we do it. Now think about

A successful leader must lead by example.

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change. Each of us has a free will at our core, so like it or not, others will choose to change more readily from the example set by our own transformation than by any demand we make of them.

Christ is the ultimate example of how God enters the messiness of history to save his people.

“Watch me and do as I do,” Gideon said. “When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do exactly as I do.

he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”

because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.

After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciplesí feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you?

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one anotherís feet.

I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

Therefore I urge you to imitate me.

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

Join one another in following my example, brothers, and carefully observe those who walk according to the pattern we set for you.