Top 57 Quotes About A Bad Example

#1. If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

Peter L. Berger

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#2. 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

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.

Ljupka Cvetanova

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#6. 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

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#7. 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

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#8. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#9. 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

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#10. 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

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#11. 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

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#12. 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

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#13. No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Paul Dickson

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#14. 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

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#15. No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

Brian Oldfield

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#16. I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Simon Baker

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#17. Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Norman Vincent Peale

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#18. I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Elvis Presley

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#19. Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

Juvenal

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#20. 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

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#21. Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example

Carroll Bryant

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#22. 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

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#23. 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

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#24. 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

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#25. Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#26. Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

Attila The Hun

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#27. 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

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#28. 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

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#29. I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example ...

Aldous Huxley

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#30. 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

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#31. 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

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#32. 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

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#33. 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

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#34. 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.

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#35. 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

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#36. 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

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#37. When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Confucius

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#38. 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

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#39. 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

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#40. 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

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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

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#43. 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

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#44. 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

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#45. 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

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#46. I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#47. 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

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#48. A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

John McAfee

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#49. Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

George Washington

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#50. 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

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#51. 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

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#52. Feminism is not a fad. It's not like Angry Birds. Although it does involve a lot of angry birds. Bad example.

Bridget Christie

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#53. 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

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#54. 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

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#55. 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

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#56. I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

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#57. 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

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