Example Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

39 Example Quotes
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“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
Mae West Quotes
“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”
St. Francis of Assisi Quotes
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example”
François de la Rochefoucauld Quotes
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“A good example has twice the value of good advice”
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Letter I--On a Regicide Peace (vol. V, p. 331)
“Illustrious Predecessor.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 2)
“This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 496)
“Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. [Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: Epistles (IV, 3)
“The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler. [Lat., Componitur orbis Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes
Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCIX)
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes
Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCIX)
“Illustrious predecessors.”
Henry Fielding Quotes
Source: in the "Covent Garden Journal"
“Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 170)
“Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obey'd.”
George Granville, Lord Landsdowne Quotes
Source: To Myra
“Content to follow when we lead the way.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 141), (Pope's translation)
“As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe Absterrent vitiis.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Satires (I, 4, 126)
“I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.”
Junius Quotes
Source: Letter XII--To the Duke of Grafton
“Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)? [Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, Cum facias pejora senex?”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes
Source: Satires (XIV, 56)
“Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. [Fr., L'exemple est un dangereux leurre; Ou la guepe a passe, le moucheron demeure.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Source: Fables (II, XVI)
“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave us behind Footprints on the sands of time.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: A Psalm of Life
“He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes
Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XIX)