Quotes About Being An Example To Somebody

#1. It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership ... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#2. Wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people, wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along, as an example, with Russia?

Donald Trump

#3. I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived by a woman (the song also contains the woman's counterargument).

Seungri

#4. I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!

Patricia Polacco

#5. For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

Franz Beckenbauer

#6. Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

Oswald Chambers

#7. Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being.

Bell Hooks

#8. Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.

Baratunde Thurston

#10. Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

Eddie Marsan

#11. Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation ... I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.

Ron Paul

#13. He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#14. Every profession has its pitfalls. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are told how interesting a profession that must be and then people change the subject fast.

Neil Gaiman

#15. When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

Natalie Cole

#16. At least some of the items in a Homeric list of the aretai would clearly not be counted by most of us nowadays as virtues at all, physical strength being the most obvious example.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#17. I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.

Tilda Swinton

#18. For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

Bill Frisell

#19. 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

#20. The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Stedman Graham

#21. For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up as an example of what was possible. Instead, I was her excuse that she wasn't being irrational. I was her enabler.

Samantha Young

#22. I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine. p. 22

Roland Merullo

#23. 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

#24. There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

James Baldwin

#25. When you notice an unhelpful emotion or a shift in mood, or when you notice that you're doing something you know can cause problems (being snappy, for example, or drinking too much), that could act as a cue to examine your own thoughts - "what am I thinking?".

Peter Kinderman

#26. One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

Sheila Heti

#27. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.

Robin Sacredfire

#28. Being a good example is the best form of service.

Sathya Sai Baba

#29. When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

Jim Shaw