The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. — Thomas Morell
The most powerful moral influence is example. — Huston Smith
Lead by example. Your actions speak louder than words. — Michael Abrashoff
Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. — Ron Paul
The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example. — Naval Ravikant
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
Preach by example of your lives rather than by words. Example is the very best sermon. — Rose Philippine Duchesne
Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example. — C. J. Mahaney
Each person must live their life as a model for others. — Rosa Parks
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. — Paulo Coelho
Short Setting An Example Quotes
Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world. — Madeleine Sophie Barat
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. — Albert Schweitzer
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. — Mark Twain
Be a pattern to others and then all will go well. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If your leadership is ample, you will be a great example. — Daniel Evans
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example. — Joe Dimaggio
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. — Theodore Hesburgh
I try to be an example and live as Christ-like as I can. — Kevin Ollie
Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it's the only thing. — Abraham Lincoln
Setting An Example Image Quotes
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Settings Quotes
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. — Richard Bach
To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not. — Martin Luther
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. — Michelangelo
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage. — Prince Ea
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. — Dick Gregory
I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world. — Misha Collins
Before I go out on the field every day, I tell myself, 'You are having fun, and you want to set a good example to those who are watching. — Cory Snyder
Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example. — Norman Vincent Peale
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules. — Lee Iacocca
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
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven. — Benjamin Franklin
A good example has twice the value of good advice — Albert Schweitzer
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. — William McKinley
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity. — Pranab Mukherjee
If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world. — Rudy Ruettiger
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize. — Che Guevara
Do good. Inspire. Set an example to yourself and others. Have faith. Make your actions loud. Have fun. Be nice. Love strong. — Jessie J
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us. — Misty Copeland
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! — Alexander Hamilton
We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired. — David McCullough
The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air. — Tim Wise
Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders. — King Hussein I
I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time. — Misty Copeland
True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you. — David Niven
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living. — Roger Scruton
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s. — Alan Greenspan
Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move. — Lee Iacocca
We should try to be happy, just to set an example — Jacques Prevert
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up. — Lil Wayne
Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State. — Michael N. Castle
Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement. — Maurice Strong
Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service. — Charles Stanley
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. — Clay Aiken
The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. — George Washington
We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules. — Jim Leyland
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. — Fred Thompson
I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values. — Matt Damon
Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly. — Frances E. Willard
Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so. — Chiang Kai-shek
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. — Thomas Jefferson
I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation. — Richard E. Byrd
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness. — James Madison
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
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me. — Stephen Fry
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
I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example. — Imelda Marcos
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. — E. B. White
I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. — John Wesley
I'm trying to do the right things, especially on the ice. Even when I talk to the media, I try to not be obnoxious or be rude. I try to approach you with respect. Same thing when I played, especially if you're the captain, you wanna try and set an example. — Nicklas Lidstrom
Remember that a good example is the best sermon. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. — William Faulkner
It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that. — Barry Zito
I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing. — Virat Kohli
I know that I set an example so I don't want niggas following my steps. I don't want anybody to go do the things that I did cuz for real at times I didn't even think I was gonna make it. I was hoping I didn't get killed. I don't want nobody to try to live my life. — Cormega
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