Example Quotes

“By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a good example to bystanders.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.”
― Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, The Turgot Collection

“When in leadership, never fail to follow the same standard you have put in place for others. There is nothing that will undermine leadership more, than having a doublestandard.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“Don’t waste my time telling me who you are. Instead, use that time showing me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nature is the greatest example of love, wellness, and relationship, in visible form”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“If you cannot live out the words that you are speaking, you cannot afford to speak.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The truth is that if Jesus be merely an example, He is not a worthy example; for He claimed to be far more.”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“Be a candle in the dark,’ they say. I don’t want to be a candle. I want to be a bonfire.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The very first element for having control over others is, of course, to have control over oneself. If I cannot take charge of myself, I cannot take charge of others. The next, perhaps, is—not to try to "seem" anything, but to be what we would seem.
A person in charge must be felt more than she is heard—not heard more than she is felt. She must fulfil her charge without noisy disputes, by the silent power of a consistent life, in which there is no seeming, and no hiding, but plenty of discretion. She must exercise authority without appearing to exercise it.”
― Florence Nightingale, Florence Nightingale - To Her Nurses

“Whether you recognize it or not, you tend to become like those you surround yourself with.
Choose wisely!”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“Statistically speaking, you’re modeling the marriage your children will have.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“There’s a tipping point to success, and to failure.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life

“Behind you there lays a long series of footprints. And does the nature, direction and depth of them inspire others to walk in them or run from them?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As I was writing this book, my sister-in-law called early one morning to say that my younger brother Glenn had died overnight after a lengthy illness. 'Go back to sleep,' she urged me, but as I sat there with the phone in my hand, I actually asked myself, 'What would Cokie do?' And I immediately knew the answer: get up, get dressed, and go over to my brother's house, about fifteen minutes away. As I was driving there, I called my sister and told her I was following Cokie's example. You're wrong, she said, Cokie would have been there last night, sleeping on the couch. When I told my son, Lee, this story, he corrected me again. Mom, he said, would have been there for the last three nights sleeping on the couch. Perhaps, after reading this book, you too will start asking that same question: What would Cokie do?”
― Steven V. Roberts, Cokie: A Life Well Lived

“I consider my example as often as possible, because one day my example will be all that is left of me.”
― Jonathan Heimberg

“The collapse of the Aricebo Observatory was a good example of what happens to poorly maintained industrial facilities.”
― Steven Magee

“It is time for you to make a commitment to create joy, creativity and love for yourself, only then will you benefit others, for if you do not evolve yourself, you do not serve others. By becoming a living example, by following what is in your heart, you show the way for others to follow with courage, what is in their hearts.”
― Barbara Marciniak

“Easy!,” you think. “Gently lower the collective pitch lever and you’ll descend gracefully to the ground, a hero.” However, when you try it, you discover that life isn’t that simple. The helicopter’s nose drops, and you start to spiral down to the left. Suddenly you discover that you’re flying a system where every control input has secondary effects. Lower the left-hand lever and you need to add compensating backward movement to the right-hand stick and push the right pedal. But then each of these changes affects all of the other controls again. Suddenly you’re juggling an unbelievably complex system, where every change impacts all the other inputs. Your workload is phenomenal: your hands and feet are constantly moving, trying to balance all the interacting forces.
Helicopter controls are decidedly not orthogonal.”
― Andy Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

“modified version of the Chicago Statement that can serve as a template for other schools...:

The [INSTITUTION]'s fundamental commitment is to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the [INSTITUTION] community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed. It is for the individual members of the [INSTITUTION] community, not for the [INSTITUTION] as an institution, to make those judgements for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“How to set an example and at the same time teach a lesson, when someone attacks your terrain, learn it from Modi Ji.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“You can learn from a bad example as well as a good one. A discerning person sees clearly the difference between warning and reverence.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“Learn to lose, wade to win. If you win, people will quote your examples; if you lose, you can guide others on how not to paddle.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

“My dad and mom had learned the value of presence through their parents and as a result, I learned the value of presence through mine.”
― Kent Kraning, Dirt Grenades and Other Explosive Parenting Moments

“Leadership is causing effects that otherwise would not have happened, while inspiring others to do the same.”
― Kevin Crittendon

“Atheism is a perfect example of perfect manipulation.”
― Vladimir Živković, A Guide to the Psyche of Atheism, Religion and Philosophy and Their Impact on Contemporary Spirituality

“In my day, living where I did, I was taught to say 'yes, sir' and 'yes ma'am.' I was taught respect.
On the one hand, adults in Greensville also showed respect for kids. You rarely heard a grown-up curse in front of a child, for example. Kids were taught to mind their manners all right, but as far as I could tell, the older folk set a decent example.”
― Ray Charles, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“When your personal decisions and behaviors are both self-centered and scheming, yet you expect your children to be considerate and honest—that is called insanity. Whether you like it or not, your living example, far more than your preaching, has the mightiest impact on the behavior of your children. If your life is a picture of deceit, then your example to be emulated is one of deceit. Repent and change before your children adopt the same behaviors.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“Most men are not kept within the bounds of moderation by mere admonition or even by example; it is absolutely necessary to punish them by disenchantment, by exile, or by death”
― Cassius Dio

“Der »Fall Hitler« bleibt für alle Zeiten ein warnendes Exempel. Wenn er etwas lehrt, dann dies: Wie rasch eine Demokratie aus den Angeln gehoben werden kann, wenn die politischen Institutionen versagen und die zivilgesellschaftlichen Kräfte zu schwach sind, um der autoritären Versuchung zu begegnen. Und: Wie dünn die Decke ist, welche die Zivilisation von der Barbarei trennt, und wozu Menschen fähig sind, wenn alle rechtsstaatlichen und moralischen Normen außer Kraft gesetzt werden und sie uneingeschränkt über das Leben anderer Menschen verfügen können.”
― Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45

“Even fools teach, mostly by example.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero