Quotes About Example

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.

You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

More depends on my walk than talk.

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

Let your life be your argument.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

Tenemos que aprender a seguir el ejemplo de Cristo, que fue movido a compasión por los pecadores y que podía orar por ellos incluso cuando lo estaban clavando a la cruz en el Calvario.

The reality, though, is that our very best efforts at following his example are always imperfect and defiled by our sinful nature. By contrast, his obedience was always perfect and complete and never defiled. Therefore, we should always look first at what Jesus did as our representative before looking at him as our example.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

He told Hitler, "There is evident injustice in the French attitude; but defeat in war is always followed by injustice." He raised the example of the aftermath of the American Civil War and the North's "terrible" treatment of the South.

Recognizing that confidence and fearlessness were attitudes that could be adopted and taught by example, Churchill issued a directive to all ministers to put on a strong, positive front.

Be like father, but don't do like father

This is what makes Jesus different than the rest of us. After Jesus knew he had all things under his power, he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with a towel that was wrapped around him.