Top 100 An Example Quotes
#1. I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.
Giuliana Rancic
#2. I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.
Emeril Lagasse
#3. Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
Queen Latifah
#4. If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over
Macklemore
#5. Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#6. If you want inner peace, unconditionally forgive everyone. If you want world peace, be an example and love everyone.
Debasish Mridha
#7. All people by nature desire to know. An example of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves.
Aristotle.
#8. [The White Rose] is relevant because it gives us an example that we can use ... They are a sign of how we should strive to be.
Ruth Hanna Sachs
#9. There is an example that inspires a matter for debate. Was the pattern always there for us to find or do we create it entirely by ourselves from nothing?
Philip Dodd
#10. Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope
#11. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.
Donald Judd
#12. I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
Iain Duncan Smith
#13. Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!
Alistair Begg
#14. I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether consciously or not, that one observe the vast as well as the infinitesimal in order to create the image or choose accurate words that ring true.
Elizabeth Winder
#15. I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
Jane Smiley
#16. Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.
George Bancroft
#17. It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
Annie Lennox
#18. The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.
James Berardinelli
#19. Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.
Patrick Henry
#20. Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
Maureen Corrigan
#21. I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.
Cindy McCain
#22. The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E.B. White
#25. I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
Clay Aiken
#26. Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.
Luis De Guindos
#27. If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.
Charles R. Swindoll
#28. The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.
Michael Ignatieff
#29. As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.
Nalini Singh
#30. The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.
Zadie Smith
#31. There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.
Beck
#32. My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.
Brandy Norwood
#33. Learn from examples in history lest thou be made an example
John Boys
#34. If there was ever an example for redemption, it's you.
Michael Grant
#35. Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.
Horace
#36. God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.
Jeff Miller
#37. You don't become a hero by choosing to become a hero. You become a hero by becoming an example, by being an example for what's possible, for being an example for one person.
John Assaraf
#38. The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference; and that this segment which the frame frames is an example of nature-as-representation, nature-as-sign.
Rosalind E. Krauss
#39. As an example, in Texas a licensing law was passed that requires computer-repair technicians to obtain a criminal justice degree or serve a three-year apprenticeship under a licensed private investigator.
Brian Phillips
#40. Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.
Susan Sontag
#41. But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
Richard Farnsworth
#42. I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.
Carmen Policy
#43. The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
Tom Wolfe
#44. 'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.
Clint Eastwood
#45. Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
Dawn Fraser
#46. The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.
Lydia M. Child
#47. Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in life, in love, in faith, and in purity ... Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.
Karen Kingsbury
#48. If this all works which I have read and some of which I have written did happen just one year... the events... wow...wow... what type of serial killer... what type of crazy mad stuff are going to happen... it's just an example of chaos.
Deyth Banger
#49. I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.
Michael Sheen
#50. One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#51. Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
King Felipe VI
#52. When the Son of God chose to submit to this trial in his own person, he became an example to all believers, so that they may carefully avoid falling into Satan's snares by a wrong use of Scripture. And
John Calvin
#53. The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.
Philip Greenspun
#54. I like when people wear a WWJD bracelet, because it's like an example of the first thing Jesus wouldn't do, probably.
Demetri Martin
#55. Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.
Yolanda Adams
#56. An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.
Robert Kiyosaki
#57. The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.
Tim Wise
#58. YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.
Salar Kamangar
#59. A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi
#60. Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
George H. W. Bush
#61. But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.
Mercedes Ruehl
#62. I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts ...
Ian Christe
#63. 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
#64. I think Putin has changed, for sure. He has changed over time and he has been emboldened by, whether it's true or not, the perception is that we've pulled back, so people do change and this is an example of that.
Jeb Bush
#65. We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.
Daniel Greenberg
#66. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Ram Dass
#67. I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.
George Takei
#68. Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.
Candace Cameron
#69. Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.
Stephen Daldry
#70. To be a teacher, an example, a leader, to learn language, science, and navigation, for with greater responsability one must have greater knowledge and education.
J.M. Bardsley
#71. A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
Jean De La Bruyere
#72. For me, this was an example of how unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the context, the economy of someone's life.
Oliver Sacks
#73. I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
Sting
#74. An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
Giles Foden
#75. Motivation???
- Horror is nice one!
- Creepypasta is an example for such genre.
Deyth Banger
#76. We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#77. Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.
Demetri Martin
#78. Refined grains (regular old spaghetti being an example), fatty meats (hard salami), sweets (blueberry pie), and fried foods (bacon) are not poisonous. They are foods that just happen to be less wholesome than some other foods. There
Matt Fitzgerald
#79. I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it had the words 'under God' in it. I think that's an example of a judge allowing personal opinion to enter into the decision-making process, as opposed to strict interpretation of the Constitution.
George W. Bush
#80. Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another.
Clare Of Assisi
#81. Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
Laura Kreitzer
#82. Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions - light and darkness mixed.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#83. Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
B.F. Skinner
#84. Who is going to teach fighting spirit to our kids if they are growing up watching us sitting in a comfortable zone in life.
We got to wake up and fight it out in our areas of passion, and be an example for our kids.
Manoj Arora
#85. With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling - an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.
Libba Bray
#86. I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
Yann Martel
#87. Homosexual practice is an example on a horizontal plane of our vertical rebellion against God.
Kevin DeYoung
#88. Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.
Chiang Kai-shek
#89. This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides an example of the artificial production of an organic, indeed a so-called animal, substance from inorganic substances.
Friedrich Wohler
#90. I think I am example for our scene, so I have to be an example for the rest.
Tiesto
#91. To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards ...
Dorothy Osborne
#92. Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.
Marina Warner
#93. Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually.
Brian Eno
#94. Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents".
Jacob Braude
#95. Cotton balls is an example of something I would buy, but not want to have as a nickname. Cinnamon buns, on the other hand, is something I would buy and want to have as a nickname. 'Are you Cinnamon Buns?' 'You bet your sweet ass I am.'
Demetri Martin
#96. Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.
Diane Lane
#97. In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret.
J.R. Rim
#99. Forgive me, Cassie, but Jonas Marsden is hardly an example of well-adjusted behavior!
Karen Chance
#100. These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.
Jerry Sloan
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