Quotes About Example

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Jesus didn't come just to tweak things, but to overthrow the kingdom of this world. We are slow to learn and need more stories to help us catch God's kingdom vision and even to help us make sense of the example Jesus sets for us.

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

A good example is the best sermon.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Example has more followers than reason.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

And is then example nothing? It is everything. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

if Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one's life outside politics, and one's death too: that was the example he set for his followers.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Sita and Ram were two strong individuals, and their love for each other is an example for lovers across the globe.

If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers.