Quotes about Example
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.
Example has more followers than reason.
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.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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.
A good example is the best sermon.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.
Example has more followers than reason.
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.
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
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.
A good example is the best sermon.