Top 100 A Good Example Quotes
#1. I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#3. No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Hosea Ballou
#4. I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example ... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
Patrick Macnee
#6. There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
Robert Adamson
#7. A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.
Tim Heidecker
#8. There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
Joel Edgerton
#10. The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.
John Walter Bratton
#11. Think about someone, such as a teacher who may have inspired you. Their care and love must have shone through. That is the reason to follow those who set a good example of life.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#12. Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
Busy Philipps
#13. Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.
Raj Chetty
#14. We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
Vince Cable
#15. We shall understand why a Christian observes laws: For the peace of the world, out of gratitude to God, and for a good example that others may be attracted to the Gospel.
Martin Luther
#16. (About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.
Frederick The Great
#17. There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.
Mark Twain
#18. I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.
John Piper
#19. You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.
Jim Samuels
#20. Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.
Stanley Spencer
#21. Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved.
Jason Kidd
#22. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example
Walter Isaacson
#23. I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
Neil Young
#24. If you can't win with words then show them a good example!
Stephen Richards
#25. Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
Jan Carlzon
#26. If you can't be a good example, settle for being a horrible warning
Jennifer Crusie
#27. The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.
Peace Pilgrim
#28. We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.
Susan Hampshire
#30. One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.
Mark Victor Hansen
#31. Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.
Lydia Davis
#32. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
#33. When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
Rick Moody
#34. A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.
Pope Francis
#35. The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
Sigmar Gabriel
#36. If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
-Gwen Goodnight
Jennifer Crusie
#37. Today, we have more information than ever, but less wisdom; more talk, but less listening; more things in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example), and less in the intellectual storeroom (that would be knowledge).
Cal Thomas
#38. And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.
Angela Merkel
#39. When you set a good example to the world, you become a flag waving on the skies of the entire world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. A Good Example Is An Example :
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
Netherlands, Tilburg, December 6, 1972
May 2053
God
Amen
Petra Hermans
#41. Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
#42. If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
#43. Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.
Flannery O'Connor
#44. It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work ... and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.
Vincent Van Gogh
#45. Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Oscar Wilde
#46. The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.
Delbert L. Stapley
#47. Being a good example teaches others to be good.
Aesop
#48. I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.'
Todd Phillips
#49. If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.
Jennifer Crusie
#50. This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.
Camille Paglia
#51. I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.
Sara McMann
#52. Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
Robert Gottlieb
#54. It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
Zaha Hadid
#55. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.
Oren Arnold
#56. I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.
Joe Mansueto
#57. Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul
#58. A daughter will follow in her mom's footsteps so make sure to set a good example.
Elizabeth George
#59. A good example is more irritating than a bad one.
John McAfee
#60. If you can't be a good example than you'll have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird
#61. I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.
Matt Mullenweg
#62. If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
Lee Iacocca
#63. Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
Oscar Wilde
#64. Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
#65. Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching.
Cory Snyder
#66. I think 'The Road' is a good example of a book everyone should read, but I wouldn't recommend it to young kids.
Shaun Tan
#68. The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
Jesse Helms
#69. If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.
David Carson
#70. As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.
George Soros
#71. Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.
Wilferd Peterson
#73. If you can't be a good example, at least be a terrible warning!
Warren Bobrow
#75. The philosophy "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Modeling is more powerful than words in teaching your children how to behave. Set a good example for your child!
Rex L. Forehand
#76. My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.
Brian Blessed
#77. I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
John Sexton
#78. When I was 13, I did become a Christian. And so it was when I was 13, that I thought ... I just ... I really saw a good example in Jesus and how he was just so ... such a tremendous radical love and service of the poor. I just thought, 'Man, why can't we all do the same?'
Hugh Evans
#79. There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!
Mark Twain
#80. Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.
Jonathan Vilma
#81. Having three daughters, it is important for me to set a good example and teach them to make decisions that are healthy for your heart no matter what age you are.
Martina Mcbride
#82. The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.
L. Ron Hubbard
#83. I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem
as I calculate it, of course
and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.
Harriet Lerner
#84. I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.
Taylor Swift
#85. I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe.
Anna Mae Aquash
#86. My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over the head with a Bible but just being a good example and always conducting myself in a Christian-like manner.
Dwight Howard
#87. A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.
Susan Stebbing
#88. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.
Timothy Snyder
#90. You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.
Augusten Burroughs
#91. Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
James Surowiecki
#92. Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets,. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.
David Brooks
#94. A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
Lara St. John
#95. I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
Mia Hamm
#96. If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.
Darynda Jones
#97. Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't know that I'm an example. I hate to say, 'Yes, look at me. I'm a good example of being Mormon.' I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I'm a good example.
Stephenie Meyer
#98. Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.
Tom Coburn
#100. The best thing we can do to save the planet is set a good example for our kids at home.
Letitia Baldrige
