Quotes About Example

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

Americans have a right to be concerned with the increased frequency and severity of mass public shootings in their own country. But the fact of the matter is that the rest of the world has it worse, and is definitely not an example for the U.S. to follow. The U.S. has high gun ownership rates, and it hasn't resulted in any elevated level of mass public shootings.

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller's most precious gift to us may reside in the ideas and the works, still yet to be imagined, of women and men who follow her example. We may decide that, despite all that Margaret Fuller endured and suffered in order to become exceptional, her life, or rather her lives, well deserve imitating.

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.

Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, [.....] just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better.

El hombre debe aprender que el sentido de la vida consiste en dar ejemplo.

Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable

If the universe had been bent on handling an example of the exact opposite of who I was, it couldn't have found a better one.

Well, Haimey Dz, you always wanted to make a legend for yourself. Here's your chance at becoming a really spectacular example of a cautionary tale!

Frankl said that he wrote the book "to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones.

I only have one tip on how to help someone else live a better life. Get a life of your own and show them how it's done!

Courage in battle, loyalty, leadership through example rather than birth or status: these are the first qualities of the Viking heart, German

The example of Saint Socrates, as Erasmus once called him, would gently lead everyone to see that the soul's highest goal is wisdom and that the "philosophy of Christ" (philosophia Christi) is the highest form of wisdom there is.

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Christ, our Captain, for a season deigned to dwell in Death's domain, That the dead, long time imprisoned, might return to life again, Breaking by His great example ancient sins' enthralling chain.

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

The example of God, teacheth the lesson truly.

In the discharge of thy place, set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. And after a time, set before thee thine own example; and examine thyself strictly, whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples, of those that have carried themselves ill, in the same place; not to set off thyself, by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself, what to avoid.