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Example is leadership. -- Albert Schweitzer
Example is the best precept. -- Aesop
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. -- Edmund Burke
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. -- Albert Schweitzer
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. -- Jean de La Fontaine
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. -- James Madison
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Example is better than precept. -- Margaret Halsey
Example is more powerful than precept. -- Aesop
Example is better than following it. -- Ambrose Bierce
Example is better than following it -- Ambrose Bierce
Lead by Example,not by showing samples -- Seyi Ayoola
Example moves the world more than doctrine. -- Henry Miller
Example has far more followers than reason. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Example is always more efficacious than precept -- Samuel Johnson
Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps. -- Mason Cooley
Example is always more efficacious than precept. -- Samuel Johnson
Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. -- Wendell Phillips
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding. -- Pliny the Elder
Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. -- George Washington
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd. -- William Penn
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. -- Benjamin Franklin
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. -- Samuel Rogers
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. -- Albert Einstein
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into. -- Michel de Montaigne
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing -- Albert Schweitzer
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others. -- Mason Cooley
Nothing is so contagious as example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a transcendent power in example. -- Sophie Swetchine
A good example is the best sermon. -- Benjamin Franklin
A leader leads by example not by force. -- Sun Tzu
Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example. -- Dan Buettner
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example. -- Geri Halliwell
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -- Mark Twain
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. -- Elbert Hubbard
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? -- Alfred de Vigny
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example. -- Hanna Rosin
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. -- Thomas Jefferson
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. -- Ambrose Bierce
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. -- Stanley Gault
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. -- Sting
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other. -- John Balguy
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? -- Robert M. Pirsig
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. -- Louis D. Brandeis
We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. -- Rupert Murdoch
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. -- Nazim Hikmet
I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world, -- Misha Collins
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
Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. -- Mary J. Blige
I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids. -- Mia Hamm
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. -- Francis Bacon
As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone. -- Heather Bresch
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. -- Jeff Bezos
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. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. -- Benjamin Franklin
Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works. -- Alan Moore
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. -- Stanley Spencer
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. -- Frans de Waal
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. -- Cat Cora
Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks. -- Dave Checketts
A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector? -- David Icke
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do. -- Robert Winston
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Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven -- Benjamin Franklin
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example -- Fred Hoyle
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one -- Thomas Jefferson
Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy -- Richard Bach
I lead verbally, not by example. -- Daryl Morey
History is Philosophy teaching by example. -- Thucydides
Authority and example lead the world. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing is so catching as example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be an example, not an adviser. -- Debasish Mridha
Don't be normal. Be an example. -- Tim Tebow
I try to lead by example. -- Usain Bolt
You can only lead by example. -- Frank Langella
This is an example of hypocrisy -- Miuccia Prada
an imitator is always a poor example. -- Marion Davies
Young heads take example of the ancient -- Elizabeth I
The most powerful moral influence is example. -- Huston Smith
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example. -- Bill Hybels
I feel like I am an example. -- Gucci Mane
The professionals must set a good example. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Be artistic, choose taste, set an example. -- Sara Genn
One example is worth a thousand arguments. -- William E. Gladstone
People imitate their leader. Lead by example. -- Barbara Corcoran
There is no teaching to compare with example. -- Robert Powell
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. -- William Butler Yeats
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty. -- Nelson Algren
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Set a great example. Someone may imitate it. -- Albert Schweitzer
An example would be handy right about now -- Brian Marick
I'm very much a lead by example person. -- Alexandra Paul
Share the way by being a good example. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Be an example, be kind and be simple. -- Debasish Mridha
Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example. -- Tony Robbins
Don't tell people how to live, demonstrate by example. -- Denis Waitley
Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have. -- Marlon Brando
Being a Christian is about living an inviting example. -- Ricky Maye
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear -- Edgar Guest
There is nothing more frustrating than a good example. -- Mark Twain
History provides a great example but a terrible excuse. -- Liz Curtis Higgs
Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do. -- Steven Brust
Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching. -- Heber J. Grant
Being a good example teaches others to be good. -- Aesop
There is nothing so annoying as a good example!! -- Mark Twain
I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism. -- Thomas Bangalter
I don't know how to lead but by example. -- Don Shula
We must teach more by example than by word. -- Mary MacKillop
There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory -- Michael Atiyah
Remember that a good example is the best sermon. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I'm an example of why people deserve second chances. -- Cam Newton
Children (nay, and men too) do most by example. -- John Locke

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