Example Quotes

I'm a living, breathing example of someone who does the same exact thing, but drugs and alcohol just aren't a part of who I am.

I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.

Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let him down.

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way.

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.