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Quotes About Example

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.
~ Mark Twain
To quote Alfred Einstein: 'a follower tells, but a leader shows.
~ Peter Lerangis
a follower tells, but a leader shows.
~ Peter Lerangis
Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the established decision procedure and the laws are held. By disobeying, I set an example to others that may lead them to disobey too.
~ Peter Singer
For instance is no proof.
~ Unknown
Elizabeth for the whole of Edward's reign, never wore the rich jewels and clothes left her by her father. Instead, she offered a more virtuous example than the writing of Saints Peter and Paul, her maidenly apparel making the ladies of the court ashamed to be dressed and painted like peacocks.
~ David Starkey
Los verdaderos líderes son aquellos que conocen sus limitaciones y trabajan con ellas. Son fieles a sus palabras, predican con el ejemplo e inspiran a los demás a pasar a la acción por sí mismos.
~ Yehuda Berg
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.
~ Lauren Bacall
As women, we should set an example and make others feel confident that they can do amazing things as well.
~ Manushi Chhillar
I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
~ Fat Joe
Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.
~ Horace Bushnell
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
~ Hosea Ballou
The baby is great. My wife and I have just started potty training. Which I think is important, because when we want to potty train the baby we should set an example.
~ Howie Mandel
I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.
~ Colin Powell
Moi, je veux montrer mes qualités; mais, je ne suis pas assez hypocrite pour cacher mes vices! Le rire, le mal, l'orgueil, la folie, paraitront, tour à tour, entre la sensibilité et l'amour de la justice, et serviront d'exemple à la stupéfaction humaine; chacun s'y reconnaitra, non pas tel qu'il devrait être, mais tel qu'il est.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?
~ Confucius
I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.
~ Corey Feldman
To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
This was the pattern. Brigadier General Cota, the 29th Division's assistant commander, had been setting an example almost from the moment he arrived on the beach.
~ Unknown
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
~ Craig Groeschel
Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.
~ Craig Groeschel
Fuimos creados para ser ejemplos vivientes del amor de Dios para un mundo que sufre.
~ Craig Groeschel
Some films that I love, I love them also because of the music. 'Vertigo,' for example, is a movie where the music is doing 70 percent of the job.
~ Alexandre Desplat