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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it. -- Confucius
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence. -- Confucius
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. -- Anita Brookner
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. -- Constance Baker Motley
Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. -- Livy
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use. -- Beeban Kidron
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. -- John Witherspoon
My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally. -- Carl Hiaasen
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. -- Martin Amis
Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations. -- Gary Hamel
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning. -- Nelson Rockefeller
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. -- Warren Bennis
There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live. -- Gedde Watanabe
Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable. -- Rhys Ifans
I have great respect for the LDS church - their commitment to family and taking care of each other is exemplary. I just don't believe the tenets of the faith that they believe. -- Kyrsten Sinema
What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago. -- David Horsey
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind. -- Ratan Tata
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect. -- Francois Hollande
We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. -- Ariel Sharon
The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut. -- Jon Landau
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children. -- Geoff Mulgan
I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. -- Jennifer Garner
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. -- Jane Austen
The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings. -- Joe Strummer
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune. -- Adam Smith
A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees. -- Radhanath Swami
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. -- Rachel Holmes
Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence -- Tara Fela-Durotoye
A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary. -- Martin E. Marty
Leaders decorate the world; character is their paint. They live exemplary life and make the world better than they found it. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement. -- Michael Dirda
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism. -- Vince Lombardi
Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude. -- Robertson Davies
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched. -- Susan Sontag
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. -- George Chapman
The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life. -- Israelmore Ayivor
It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way. -- Samael Aun Weor
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein. -- C.D. Wright
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. -- Warren Bennis
I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight. -- Rob Brydon
There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing. -- Jill Stein
It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books. -- Mac Barnett
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur. -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable. -- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal. -- June Jordan
A good coach can be a caring parent, a wise teacher, an exemplary pastor, a passionate friend or a devoted mentor. Keep in touch with all of them especially at the time they are needed. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art -- Seamus Heaney

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