Top 100 Quotes About Good Example
#2. The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
J.C. Ryle
#3. Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.
Miya Yamanouchi
#4. What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.
Rodrigo Rato
#5. It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
Vincent De Paul
#6. It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.
M. Russell Ballard
#7. Implementation inheritance is a very good example for adding much conceptual complexity without giving us the full power of the ideas it builds upon.
Anonymous
#8. Her model of self-control with food is why I have never had an issue in this area. Praise God for my mom's good example in how to eat.
Lisa Bedrick
#9. Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Ben Jonson
#10. When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
Mike Krzyzewski
#11. It's important to teach your kids the value of being active by setting a good example.
Heidi Klum
#12. I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.
Matt Holliday
#13. We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
George Herbert
#14. If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
Saint Ignatius
#15. The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
Thomas Morell
#16. The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny - everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.
Talib Kweli
#17. I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.
Allen Iverson
#18. The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.
Douglas Coupland
#19. There is no casting director; there is no producer monitoring your upload button. Anyone that looks like anyone can upload a video. I think YouTube and the digital space does set a really good example for the rest of the industry in that sense.
Lilly Singh
#21. The best thing to give
your enemy is forgiveness;
to an oponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to your self, respect;
to all men charity.
Swami Sivananda Radha
#22. You can fall on your face easily if you go off in a certain direction. The Birds is a good example, some people are really phobic about birds flying over their heads, and some don't care. So, it's a personal thing.
George A. Romero
#23. 'King Kong,' especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of miniatures mixed with digital characters and how convincing it was.
Jon Favreau
#24. Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, and it lines up with five different, smaller scenes within one large scene.
Jeff Britting
#25. To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.
Oren Arnold
#26. Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.
Joseph Wambaugh
#27. You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
Fantasia Barrino
#28. I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.
Bob Seger
#29. Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.
Doug Larson
#30. Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#31. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
#32. It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
Yuan T. Lee
#33. We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.
Lloyd Bridges
#35. Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
Pierre De Coubertin
#36. A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.
Charles Simmons
#37. I don't want to come over all po-faced, because ultimately Sherlock is just entertainment, but if I can, I want to try to set a good example.
Louise Brealey
#38. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
#39. A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.
Jools Holland
#40. It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.
Patti Smith
#41. If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely set a very good example for others.
Dalai Lama
#42. There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.
Daniel Kahneman
#44. The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.
Theodore Roosevelt
#45. No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.
Karl Hess
#46. Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
Demetri Martin
#47. So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning
John Walter Bratton
#48. I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.
Geri Halliwell
#49. My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.
Patti Smith
#50. Set a good example. Want to fuck yourself so that others want to fuck you too.
Heidi Julavits
#51. I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'
Dolly Parton
#52. With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.
Devin Hester
#53. I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.
Pamela Anderson
#54. When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.
Margaret Cho
#55. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
Ingvar Kamprad
#56. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
Jenna Elfman
#57. If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
Laura Osnes
#58. Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.
Susan Davis
#59. If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'
Ana Ivanovic
#60. If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
Gary Sheffield
#61. The best thing we can do to save the planet is set a good example for our kids at home.
Letitia Baldrige
#63. Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.
Tom Coburn
#64. 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
#65. If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.
Darynda Jones
#66. I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
Mia Hamm
#67. A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
Lara St. John
#68. A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets,. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.
David Brooks
#69. Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
James Surowiecki
#71. You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.
Augusten Burroughs
#73. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.
Timothy Snyder
#74. A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.
Susan Stebbing
#75. My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over the head with a Bible but just being a good example and always conducting myself in a Christian-like manner.
Dwight Howard
#76. Her family was counting on her - to be responsible, to get good grades, to follow the rules, to be the good example. And more important, she expected those things of herself.
Michelle Madow
#77. I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe.
Anna Mae Aquash
#78. I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.
Taylor Swift
#79. I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem
as I calculate it, of course
and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.
Harriet Lerner
#80. The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.
L. Ron Hubbard
#81. Having three daughters, it is important for me to set a good example and teach them to make decisions that are healthy for your heart no matter what age you are.
Martina Mcbride
#82. Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.
Jonathan Vilma
#83. A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.
Woody Allen
#84. There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!
Mark Twain
#85. When I was 13, I did become a Christian. And so it was when I was 13, that I thought ... I just ... I really saw a good example in Jesus and how he was just so ... such a tremendous radical love and service of the poor. I just thought, 'Man, why can't we all do the same?'
Hugh Evans
#86. I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
John Sexton
#87. Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.
Lydia Davis
#88. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example
Walter Isaacson
#89. I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
Neil Young
#90. If you can't win with words then show them a good example!
Stephen Richards
#91. Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
Jan Carlzon
#92. If you can't be a good example, settle for being a horrible warning
Jennifer Crusie
#93. The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.
Peace Pilgrim
#94. Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
#95. We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.
Susan Hampshire
#97. One of my goals is to inspire people to be all that they can be and, hopefully, be a good example and teach some useful, interesting principles. Perhaps I can be the key that turns on the engine in their life, and then they can take their car where they want.
Mark Victor Hansen
#98. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#99. Today, we have more information than ever, but less wisdom; more talk, but less listening; more things in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example), and less in the intellectual storeroom (that would be knowledge).
Cal Thomas
#100. And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.
Angela Merkel
