Top 69 Quotes About Good Examples
#1. There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.
Mark Zuckerberg
#2. I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
Nicholas Royle
#3. Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Douglas Horton
#4. Never be satisfied with where you are in the area of spiritual growth. Cultivate an insatiability for more of God by examining your weaknesses, beholding the perfection of Christ, and finding good examples of strengths you want to develop.
Matt Chandler
#5. After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.
Simon Weston
#6. I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Mike Krzyzewski
#7. No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
George Washington
#8. A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.
Trevor Moore
#9. There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.
Ian MacKaye
#10. What God cares about most is that we live a good life. The apostles were good examples. He does not expect perfection. Choosing the right road will help lead us to heaven.
Phil Mitchell
#11. While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can't focus or base our happiness on another's progress; we can focus only on our own.
Stephen R. Covey
#12. I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.
Geri Halliwell
#13. Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples.
[Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]
Tacitus
#14. Regardless of the official theology held on paper, moralistic preaching (the bane of conservatives and liberals alike) assumes that we are not really helpless sinners who need to be rescued but decent folks who need good examples, exhortations, and instructions.
Michael S. Horton
#15. I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
Veronica Roth
#16. I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.
Matt Smith
#17. 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
#18. What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
Josh Billings
#19. The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
Isaac Newton
#20. Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.
Billy Graham
#21. Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Plutarch
#22. The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.
Joseph Addison
#23. Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.
Michael Josephson
#24. There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.
Deepak Chopra
#25. And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.
Alberto Juantorena
#26. Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
John Donne
#27. There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!
Mark Twain
#28. The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.
L. Ron Hubbard
#29. of how we live our lives must encompass ALL scripture, not just what sounds good or what we are familiar with, or what seems easiest. It is a collection of teachings, examples, instructions, and even the corrective nature of the great I AM.
Brandy Dillon
#30. I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.
Joey Tempest
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.
George R R Martin
#34. History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores.
Carl Bridenbaugh
#35. You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
Wendell Berry
#36. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim Carrey
#37. A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.
Paul Halmos
#38. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
Steven Pinker
#39. Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness ... I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.
Sophie Blackall
#40. My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.
Magic Johnson
#41. I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.
Ezra Koenig
#42. There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.
Andrew Motion
#43. For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.
Charlaine Harris
#44. 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
#46. The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
Thomas Morell
#47. Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.
Theodor Herzl
#48. Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."
When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.
David Sedaris
#49. 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
#50. There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.
Mark Twain
#51. Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
Anne Frank
#52. It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.
Richard Whately
#53. And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.
Angela Merkel
#54. Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Joseph Epstein
#55. The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
Seneca The Younger
#56. The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
Seneca The Elder
#57. The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.
Delbert L. Stapley
#58. Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples - the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#59. Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.
Daniel H. Pink
#61. (Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the
Shashi Tharoor
#62. You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.
Paul Krugman
#63. We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.
Haile Selassie
#64. The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.
Marjane Satrapi
#65. A good example is more irritating than a bad one.
John McAfee
#66. If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.
Robert H. Frank
#67. Are we called to be like Noah? Yes. Are we called to be like the Good Samaritan? Yes. But not simply because they are positive examples to inspire us to righteousness. These stories point us to Christ.
Jen Wilkin
#69. Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.
Richard Bach
