| 39 Example Quotes
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“A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
Mae West Quotes |
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“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”
St. Francis of Assisi Quotes |
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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“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 |
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“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 |
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“A good example has twice the value of good advice”
Albert Schweitzer Quotes |
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“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)
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“Illustrious Predecessor.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 2)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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)
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“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)
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“Illustrious predecessors.”
Henry Fielding Quotes Source: in the "Covent Garden Journal"
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“Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 170)
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“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
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“Content to follow when we lead the way.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 141), (Pope's translation)
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“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)
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“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
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“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)
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“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)
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“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
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“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)
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