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Quotes About Example

Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.
~ Ellen G. White
Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in introducing innovative teaching methods.
~ Kim Jong-un
Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.
~ Michael N. Castle
That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.
~ Misty Copeland
Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
~ Ban Ki-moon
As a father of young girls, I want to publicly thank all women who dress and carry themselves like ladies. Your example is a gift.
~ Mark Hart
The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
~ Gloria Steinem
When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.
~ Shirley Sherrod
I hope I was a good example of women's tennis.
~ Victoria Azarenka
Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.
~ Earl Monroe
Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand.
~ Thomas P.M. Barnett
I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.
~ Salman Khan
It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.
~ Lauren Bush
We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
~ Forest Whitaker
Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.
~ Andre Ward
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
~ Nelson Mandela
I'm always on my kids so hard about staying in school and getting their education and I ain't got a GED. I wanted to do that for my kids and for my momma.
~ Boosie
I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
~ Thomas Morell
Government by precedent, without any regard to the principle of the precedent, is one of the vilest systems that can be set up. In numerous instances, the precedent ought to operate as a warning, and not as an example, and requires to be shunned instead of imitated...
~ Thomas Paine
And here, without anger or resentment, I bid you farewell. Sincerely wishing, that as men and Christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right, and be, in your turn, the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.
~ Thomas Paine
That advice should be taken wherever example has failed, or precept be regarded where warning is ridiculed, is like a picture of hope resting on despair; but when time shall stamp with universal currency the facts you have long encountered with a laugh, and the irresistible evidence of accumulated losses, like the handwriting on the wall, shall ad terror to distress, you will then, in a conflict of suffering, learn to sympathize with others by feeling for yourselves.
~ Thomas Paine
All dogs wanted to be good dogs, no matter how unpromising they seemed. You just had to help them find a way. And they were sunshine creatures. When their master opened his eyes in the morning it was their signal that the day had begun, and a day was to be greeted with joy and intense interest. They were a good example for an old man.
~ Thomas Perry
A man can produce fortitude from his own vitals, but the true food of valor is example.
~ Thornton Wilder