Quotes About Example

Lasting change is something planted by example and nurtured in each individual heart.

Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the queen died of grief, that is a story that he was interested.

For example, dissonance occurs in non-human animals (e.g., Egan, Bloom, et al., 2010; Egan, Santos, et al., 2007), suggesting that the metacognitive structure of self is not necessary.

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'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way. The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, Fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear; And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds, For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.

La loi, dont le regne vous epouvante, a son glaive leve sur vous:     elle vous frappera tous:  le genre humain a besoin de cet     exemple. — Couthon.       (The law, whose reign terrifies you, has its sword raised against     you; it will strike you all:  humanity has need of this example.)

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.

A good example has twice the value of good advice.

Your life may be the only Bible some people read.

What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps?

I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in Kenya and Africa as an example of the kind of talent the continent holds.

We are professionals, we have to set the example and not provoke anyone.