Example Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

39 Example Quotes
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“He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Lady Percy at II, iii)
“Sheep follow sheep.”
The Talmud Quotes
Source: Talmud, Ketuboth (62)
“We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. [Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes
Source: Adelphi (III, 3, 62)
“Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same. [Lat., Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse cavere tuo.]”
Albius Tibullus Quotes
Source: Carmina (III, 6, 43)
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Quotes
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 19)
“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”
Martin Van Buren Quotes
Source: in his inaugural address
“He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes
Source: The Aeneid (II, 724)
“It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.”
Theodore M. Hesburgh Quotes
“To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.”
Golda Meir Quotes
“You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.”
Stanley C. Gault Quotes
“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
Richard Milhous Nixon Quotes
“Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.”
Anonymous Quotes
“If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.”
Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes
“Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
Christian Nevell Bovee Quotes