Top 29 Quotes About Bad Examples
#1. 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
#2. Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Joseph Epstein
#3. The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.
Jim Piddock
#4. Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.
Stuart Wilde
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.
Koren Zailckas
#9. A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
Thomas A Kempis
#11. I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
Edie Falco
#12. In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.
Frank Wedekind
#13. Is this okay?" she whispered, her breath hot against my skin.
"God, yes," I panted, the entire forest disappearing around me. It was only her. Only her fresh scent, the feel of her weight on top of me, her hands, her skin, her lips. Only her.
Mia Sheridan
#14. 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
#15. Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
Emily Bronte
#16. Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.
Monica Crowley
#17. A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.
William Kittredge
#18. Choose something which is better and from which you can learn something, ... here I am going to give few examples.
CSI:Miami - Good Choice
Dexter - Another Good CHoice
Breaking Bad - Another Good Choice
Person Of Interest - Another Good Choice
Deyth Banger
#19. Caring about him was like trying to love a tree stump - a cold, mean-spirited paternalistic tree stump. With fungus.
Cecily White
#20. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.
David Baldacci
#21. Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
Bent Larsen
#22. Religion can provide a check to my tendency to think that I am the center of the universe, that I know better than anyone about God, and that God speaks most clearly through me.
James Martin
#23. Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Craig Venter
#24. A good example is more irritating than a bad one.
John McAfee
#25. Softness was for kittens, pillows and pretty cashmere sweaters. Sex needed to be hard, hot and oh-so-rough around the edges.
Lauren Blakely
#26. What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.
Prince Philip
#27. It is not up to us to judge and measure each other's devoutness.
Elif Shafak
#28. I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
Harry Browne
#29. [Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
