Example Quotes and Sayings - Page 4
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Richard Cecil
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as “nutty methods.” Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as “a complete waste of time.
Scott Adams
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare
The example of the raft shows dharmas should be treated as provisional, as means to an end. The same holds good of emptiness too, the negation of dharmas. This corollary has elsewhere been illustrated by the simile of medicine which can heal any ill.
Buddha
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
George Washington
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
St. Francis of Assisi
Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.
Earl of Chesterfield
In this country it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others.
Voltaire
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.
Margaret Cavendish
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.
Corrine Brown
Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou
I think there should be something in science called the “reindeer effect.” I don’t know what it would be, but I think it’d be good to hear someone say, “Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.”
Jack Handy
Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do. But if the physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing, and himself do quite another, could I believe him?
John Selden
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