Example Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
What can’t be done by advice can often be done by example.
Anonymous
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
Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.
Benjamin Franklin
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
There are easier things in life than trying to find a nice guy…like nailing jelly to a tree for example.
Anonymous
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
Robert Menzies
Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
H. W. Shaw
I don’t like people who take drugs… Customs men for example.
Mick Miller
Every reform needs examples more than advocates.
Anonymous
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
Well done, is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil
Illustrious Predecessor.
Edmund Burke
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Dave Barry
What you have accomplished in the past is a much stronger example than talking about what you are capable of doing in the future.
Catherine Pulsifer
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples — do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings — don’t do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.
Jim Rohn
Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Goldsmith
Juvenile delinquency would disappear if kids followed their parent’s advice instead of their example.
Anonymous
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
Malcolm Boyd
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard
A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.
Anonymous
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.
G. K. Chesterton
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
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