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Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow. Source Unknown Example 159
Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read. William J. Toms Example 143
Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice. Source Unknown Example 134
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. Stanley C. Gault Example 134
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Example 119
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. Samuel Johnson Example 113
Example is leadership. Albert Schweitzer Example 111
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. Juvenal Example 101
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other Edmund Burke Example 98
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. Theodore Hesburgh Example 96
Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others. Francois de la Rochefoucauld Example 95
Produce great men, the rest follows. Walt Whitman Example 95
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Timothy McVeigh Example 90
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship. Barbara De Angelis Example 88
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. Eric Hoffer Example 88
What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. Confucius Example 87
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. Thomas Morell Example 86
Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the Edward Young Example 82
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. Henry Miller Example 82
There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone. Cheryl James Example 81
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. Ralph Waldo Emerson Example 81
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. Elbert Hubbard Example 77
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. Robert Morgan Example 77
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. Christian Nevell Bovee Example 76
Nothing preaches better than the act. Benjamin Franklin Example 76
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. George Eliot Example 75
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. Proverbs Example 75
A good example is the best sermon. Source Unknown Example 75
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into. Michel de Montaigne Example 74
Precept guides, but example draws. Proverbs Example 70
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him. Samuel Smiles Example 69
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund Burke Example 68
He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example. Sri Chinmoy Example 67
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. Seneca Example 66
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. Dwight L. Moody Example 64
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer Example 64
I think people get fixated on the example of an idea. Joshua Homme Example 62
Why do I jave to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid. Bob Gibson Example 62
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. Andre Breton Example 60
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain Example 57
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain Example 56
Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it Source Unknown Example 56
You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself. Martin Rutte Example 55
The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Gilbert K. Chesterton Example 55
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example. George Bernard Shaw Example 54
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. Brigham Young Example 50
It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. Henry Fielding Example 49
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe. Robert Englund Example 49
The most powerful moral influence is example. Huston Smith Example 46
Live as you wish your kids would. Source Unknown Example 36

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