Quotes About Example

Example is better than precept.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! Don't just assume your children on their own will somehow get the drift of your beliefs.

kids are absolutely capable of spiritual depth. Let's teach them to serve and care about the world beyond their Xboxes. And we have to lead with our lives, not just our lips, because kids can smell a fake.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

The courtesy was innate, based not simply on good manners, which could be taught, but on concern for other people, which was learned only by constant example.

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

Our only hope is to follow the example of Jesus and get back out there, winning people over with ridiculous love

If we took Jesus' famous teachings away and just focused on the way He lived, He would still be radical.

If it is true that this is the first portrait of an artist at work, it could be because she came from the northern tradition which specialized in depictions of St Luke painting the Virgin, and she had the wit to adapt this example of a working artist for herself.

No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.

It is not reasonings that are wanted now,' he says, 'for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. What is wanted, then? The man who shall apply them; whose actions may bear testimony to his doctrines. Assume this character for me, that we may no longer make use in the schools of the examples of the ancients, but may have some examples of our own.

It is not reasonings that are wanted now for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings. What is wanted, then? The man who shall apply them; whose actions may bear testimony to his doctrines. Assume this character for me, that we may no longer make use in the schools of the examples of the ancients, but may have some examples of our own.

Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu'avez-vous fait jusqu'à présent pour la morale ? Diderot: (sans vergogne). Mais... j'ai offert mon exemple.

Indeed, Fred Rogers and his gentle care of children seemed to embody the words credited to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.

Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.