EXAMPLE QUOTES III

quotations about example

Sheep follow sheep.

TALMUD

Ketuboth 62


If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridon


The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

CHARLES MORELL

The Tales of the Genii


Rules and discourses are dead pictures, but a good example is virtue itself, alive and in motion : we may say a good example is virtue personified.

MOX

The Railway Conductor, vol. 27


Be a pattern to others, and all will go well: for as a whole city is affected by the promiscuous passions of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

CICERO

attributed, Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom


Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Lord Stirling, Mar. 5, 1780


In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

JOHN LOCKE

"Of Great Place", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays


A good example is the best sermon.

ENGLISH PROVERB


Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

TIBULLUS

Carmina


Precepts guide, but examples drag along.

ROMAN PROVERB


For example is a language far more eloquent than words: it is instruction in action.

SAMUEL SMILES

Thrift


Those who know what is right, should set the example of practicing it; and those who persist in doing wrong must be made an example, to deter others from doing the same.

GEORGE CRABB

English Synonyms Explained


I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

THOMAS HARDY

Jude the Obscure


From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.

JOHN TILLOTSON

The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson


No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

LORD CLARENDON

attributed, Day's Collacon


People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Deserted Village


You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

ORRIN WOODWARD

L.I.F.E: Living Intentionally For Excellence


People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

TRYON EDWARDS

attributed, Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom


An ounce of example is better than a ton of precept.

ENGLISH PROVERB