Example Quotes

If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition!

Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah’k’hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example.

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

I hear many young women say they can't find well-known feminists with whom they identify. That can be disheartening, but I say, let us (try to) become the feminists we would like to see moving through the world.

I don't enjoy talking about what I am going to do. I prefer just letting folks just find out what I've done.

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

Leadership crisis erupt when people who have not learnt how to obey instructions are given the privilege to give commands. Leaders are experienced servants.

Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you perceive yourself. If you believe in yourself that confidence shines through and others will believe in you too.

Being an example to others is a requirement of following Jesus, even though none of us will ever be a perfect example.

Your life is a personal lesson. For everyone else it is a loud example.

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

I give away examples!

Children have more need of models than of critics.

...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has hitherto never given an example, the feasibility even if which might be very much doubted by one who founds everything on experience, are nevertheless inflexibly commanded by reason; that, for example, even though there might never yet have been a sincere friend, yet not a whit the less is pure sincerity in friendship required of every man...

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

The more surely you rear your children in the ways of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with love and high expectation, the more likely that there will be peace in their lives. Set an example for them. That will mean more than all the teaching you can give them. Do not overindulge them. Let them grow up with respect for and understanding of the meaning of labor, of working and contributing to the home and its surroundings, with some way of earning some of their own expense money. Let your sons save for missions, and encourage them to prepare themselves, not only financially, but spiritually and in an attitude to go out to serve the Lord without selfishness of any kind.

In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.

People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.

If I want religion, I know where to look for it - and if for example I don't want it, then why should it be forced on me in media and public spaces?

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.

Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.

A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.