1. A good example has twice the value of good advice. ~Unknown
2. A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. ~Proverb
3. A good example is the best sermon. ~Thomas Fuller
4. A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Unknown
5. A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. ~Robert Menzies
6. Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. ~Paul Klee
7. Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. ~Unknown
8. Every reform needs examples more than advocates. ~Unknown
9. Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. ~Phaedrus
10. Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
11. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer
12. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ~Mark Twain
13. First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. ~Amos Bronson Alcott
14. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. ~Francis Bacon
15. I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. ~Thomas Jefferson
16. I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. ~Dean Acheson
17. If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw
18. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. ~Samuel Smiles
19. It's not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
20. Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. ~Malcolm Boyd
21. Juvenile delinquency would disappear if kids followed their parent's advice instead of their example. ~Unknown
22. Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. ~John Webster
23. Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce it’s like. ~François de la Rochefoucauld
24. Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. Parents should be the most important examples for their children. ~Christy Turlington
26. Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. ~St. Francis of Assisi
27. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~William Feather
28. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. ~Albert Einstein
29. Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. ~Felix Adler
31. The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ~Benjamin Disraeli
32. 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
33. Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. ~Vic Snyder
34. We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. ~Roy L. Smith
35. We usually look outside of ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered, Eventually we may come to live by it. ~Rachel Naomi Remen
36. When we see men of worth, we should think of becoming like them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. ~Confucius
37. You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ~Harvey Firestone