Example Quotes

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

an imitator is always a poor example.

My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job.

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.