quotations about example
What the world wants is good examples, not so much advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
H. W. SHAW
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attributed, Day's Collacon
Example is far more than precept. It is instruction in action.
SAMUEL SMILES
Happy Homes and Hearts that Make Them
Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of the assemblies," yet sure their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold.
THOMAS FULLER
The Holy and Profane States
Decapitate
Example be made
JUDAS PRIEST
"Decapitate"
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
MARK TWAIN
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
A bad example is the best sermon.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Yes, we need to make examples. But examples to follow. What we need ... are heroes.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD & ALAIN GODARD
Enemy at the Gates
For, now it may be said, I build with good reason, since I follow your example.
PLINY THE YOUNGER
letter to Voconius Romanus, The Letters of Pliny the Younger
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
letter to Harrison Blake, Mar. 27, 1848
Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.
TIBULLUS
Carmina
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
CICERO
Epistles
Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Lord Stirling, Mar. 5, 1780
Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obey'd.
GEORGE GRANVILLE
To Myra
Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done, that did not produce its like.
ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Reflections
For example is a language far more eloquent than words: it is instruction in action.
SAMUEL SMILES
Thrift
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.
JOHN LOCKE
"Of Great Place", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays
Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
E. SPENSER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Rules and discourses are dead pictures, but a good example is virtue itself, alive and in motion : we may say a good example is virtue personified.
MOX
The Railway Conductor, vol. 27
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
CHARLES HENRY FOWLER
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Enchiridon