Quotes About Example

Remember that you are influencing people who are watching you.

electronic realities of publishing. O'Reilly Media is one example. Let's take a look at its approach to publishing:

leaders lead as they were led.

I'm straight edge. I've never touched a drug, and I want to show kids that you can accomplish big things the right way.

For me, it's always been a financial kind of scenario. I was actually the first one who signed the 'exclusive to Ring of Honor' contract. I was the first guy who ever signed one of those contracts. That was tough for me because I had no one to talk to. I had no examples to go on. I was the guinea pig.

My dad was a tough man. I think that would be putting it mildly. Short on praise, short on communications. Long on leading by example. Lots of integrity, and lots of passion for things. But he was a tough guy.

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others. There is no surprise in that, since the Lord proclaimed those as the first and great commandments.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

An overzealous parent is just one example of the kind of Problem Mom or Dad who pops up at track meets, threatening to put a damper on the day.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

Trees die from the top". No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Put your trust in Him and following His example, always act humbly, graciously, and in good faith.

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.

The chief and fundamental thing in the Gospel is this, that before you take Christ as your example, you recognize and accept Him as God's gift to you; so that when you see or hear Him in any of His work or suffering, you do not doubt but believe that He, Christ Himself, with such work or suffering of His, is most truly your very own, whereon you may rely as confidently as if you had done that work....

Vi foraktet ikke de gamle. Tvert imot, vi var dem takknemlige for meget, men først og fremst for deres eksempel. Bare ved sitt avskrekkende eksempel kan en eldre generasjon noensinne øve gavnlig innflytelse på den yngre.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.