Top 78 Bad Example Sayings
#1. The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example ... Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.
John Foley
#2. Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
Norman Vincent Peale
#3. No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.
Brian Oldfield
#4. Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.
John Balguy
#5. One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
Charles Sturt
#6. No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Paul Dickson
#7. When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
Johnny Depp
#8. Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#9. For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.
Marvin Hagler
#10. If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.
Peter L. Berger
#11. This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.
Edwidge Danticat
#13. What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
Bernie Siegel
#14. Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
Gabe Newell
#15. Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#16. The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.
John Tillotson
#17. The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Dennis Rodman
#18. The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#19. I came from a single parent household. And I had a bad example of what a husband and father could be and how irresponsible a father could be. So because of that, I didn't want to get married or have kids.
Sarah Shahi
#20. I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.
Simon Baker
#21. There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.
Edward J. Flanagan
#22. I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Elvis Presley
#23. Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.
Bridget Christie
#24. Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.
Juvenal
#25. Such watering pots,' Lord Ragsdale commented as he handed each of them ahandkerchief, then pressed a third to his eye. 'See here, you have set me a bad example.' He grinned at Tim. 'But I will practice economy and cry out of only one eye.
Carla Kelly
#26. Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example
Carroll Bryant
#27. I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
Steve Garvey
#28. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon
#29. I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.
Robert A. Heinlein
#30. He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.
Terry Pratchett
#32. Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.
Attila The Hun
#33. You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!
Garrison Wynn
#34. I want to be a bad example,' she said. 'I see.' Myrtle stirred herself, ready to walk to the prow. 'Well, my dear, I think you have made an excellent start.
Frances Hardinge
#35. Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
Sam Kean
#36. Truthfully, I don't think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing.
Peter Swanson
#37. Talk to people. Go another way. Don't kill yourself. It ain't worth it and I'm a great example. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out?
Ken Griffey Jr.
#38. Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.
Nana Awere Damoah
#39. 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
#40. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.
Jamaica Kincaid
#41. The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.
Mark Twain
#42. With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection ... which I struggle to have with most people.
Lana Del Rey
#43. I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example ...
Aldous Huxley
#44. Porgy is ... an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.
George Gershwin
#45. People are always saying bad things about them, but really they think they're just trying to clean up our planet. I'm not saying it's right but, you know, we could all benefit from following that example.
Zach Braff
#46. Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead.
Mac Anderson
#47. When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
Confucius
#48. There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
Baron De Montesquieu
#49. What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.
John Bartholomew Gough
#50. Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#51. Umm. Well ... I don't know what the first sign is. You see ... I'm ... a little blind. My eyesight is really bad. For example, I have no idea what any of you look like.
Kenya Wright
#52. Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim
Frank B. Salisbury
#53. I believe Islam was truly spread by example. So whatever good a Muslim does publicly will be seen - the same is true for the bad.
Cat Stevens
#54. Don't overreact. For example, if someone inadvertently embarrasses you in public, don't let anger get the best of you. It really isn't necessary to frame the person for a murder he/she didn't commit. Wouldn't it be enough to simply break up his or her marriage instead?
Anthony Rubino Jr.
#55. Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.
Katherine Center
#56. Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
Eric Schmidt
#57. Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.
Thomas Sowell
#58. That whole generation that's gone now, that lived through the two world wars, is a great example to all of us. They knew how to live. If something bad happened, they didn't sit at home, eat Haagen-Dazs, and watch a movie.
Sigourney Weaver
#59. I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
#60. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#61. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.
Natalie Taylor
#62. We can look at Joseph's example and realize through good times and bad, we must stay the course, being diligent and enthusiastic about what God brings. If He brings you to it, we must remember, He will bring you through it as well.
Joyce Meyer
#63. I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Joseph Prince
#64. A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
Jonathan Swift
#65. It is a prerequisite, then, for someone to trust the culture in which they work to share the values and beliefs of that culture. Without it, that employee, for example, is simply a bad fit and likely to work only for self-gain without consideration for the greater good.
Simon Sinek
#66. Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.
Masaaki Hatsumi
#67. If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.
Bethenny Frankel
#68. You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
Ben Barnes
#69. The appeal of the paranormal bad boy - or James Bond super-spy, as one example of male escapism - can sometimes make everyday problems seem less dire. Thus, a few hours spent immersed in the world of the wicked yet alluring hero is the equivalent of a mini-vacation.
Jeaniene Frost
#70. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so, wrote Shakespeare. For example:
Robert Holden
#71. Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.
Vivek Wadhwa
#73. A good example is more irritating than a bad one.
John McAfee
#74. Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals like Hydrogen and Oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Dave Barry
#75. If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
Auberon Herbert
#76. Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift
#77. In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#78. Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.
Devin Nunes
