Quotes About Example

We are surrounded by a great cloud of people whose lives tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that is before us and never give up." —Hebrews 12:1a NCV

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Dolphins love each other so romantically, so playfully, so completely, that it is obvious that they are sent by God to teach us by their example to do the same.

Abbott had also impressed on Holmes, possibly by his conversation but certainly by his example, the belief that nobility of character consists in doing one's job with indifference to ends

He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.

He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier to try for your sakes than for my own. A startled or surprised look from one of you when I spoke sharply rebuked me more than any words could have done, and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Poor Hannah was the first to recover, and with unconscious wisdom she set all the rest a good example, for with her, work was panacea for most afflictions.

I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.

It was as if her own conscience had taken human shape, for his voice eloquently uttered the fears, the feelings that had filled her heart that night. She had wavered, for love was sweet and life looked desolate without it; but the example of this man who asked nothing for himself and was as true to his own soul as he would have her to hers, touched and inspired her with a brave desire to be worthy his respect, to emulate his virtue.

Clear and strong as an actual presence, that remembrance flashed upon her in an instant, that example upheld her, and the true love defeated the false.

Yes, and when I have my flock, I'll just point to you, and say 'There's your model, my lads'.

Tak jako dítÄ›ti do sedmého roku musíme dávat fyzický vzor, tak musí být do okolí vyvíjejícího se ?lovÄ›ka mezi výmÄ›nou zub? a pohlavním dozráním vnáÅ¡eno vÅ¡echno to, jehož vnitÃ…â"¢ním smyslem a hodnotami se m?že Ã…â"¢ídit. Nyní je na místÄ› to, co je naplnÄ›no smyslem a co p?sobí obrazem a podobenstvím.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

Gravitación, s. Tendencia de todos los cuerpos a acercarse unos a otros con fuerza proporcional a la cantidad de materia que contienen; la cantidad de materia que contienen se determina por la tendencia a acercarse unos a otros. Bello y edificante ejemplo de cómo la ciencia, después de hacer de A la prueba de B, hace de B la prueba de A.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children.