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Leading By Example Quotes
Setting A Good Example Quotes

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The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

Related topics: Inspirational Live-By Inspiring Leadership Heroic Charisma

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer

Leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

Example moves the world more than doctrine.
The great exemplars are the poets of action,
and it makes little difference whether they be forces
for good or forces for evil.
- Henry Miller

I think children learn from example.
I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
- Kent McCord

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy,
inspiring others to follow my example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will
learn from the example and won't have to go through it.
- Lawrence Taylor

Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain
and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
- Benny Hinn

Setting a good example for your children takes all
the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather

People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Radical changes in world politics leave America with
a heightened responsibility to be,
for the world, an example of a genuinely free,
democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II

I want to get old gracefully.
I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and
be an example to my children.
- Sting

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which
field you can get into and hold a job in,
whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse,
for example.
- Daniel Goleman

The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you
must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example.
My father wasn't perfect.
- Adam Sandler

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing,
as when you find a trout in the milk,
to quote Thoreau's example.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

I would like to see the technology used to explore
more period horror genre works,
for example, E. A. Poe.
- Robert Englund

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery.
If you flatter all the company, you please none;
If you flatter only one or two,
you offend the rest.
- Jonathan Swift

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me
out as an example of what can be done without training.
- Kate Smith

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson
to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
- Shirin Ebadi

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right.
As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting
has already been established.
- George Carlin

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting,
I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant
sound an appropriate place to live.
- Adrian Belew

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome,
namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war,
for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
- Douglas Hurd

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men.
The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
- Mary Wesley

I hate the whole race.
There is no believing a word they say,
your professional poets, I mean there never existed
a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
- Arthur Wellesley

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the
prime example of love or friendship.
- Mortimer Adler

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot
be explained by the laws of logic or science.
Dennis Rodman is only one example.
- Dave Barry

For example, computer defends well, but for humans
its is harder to defend than attack,
particularly with the modern time control.
- Boris Spassky

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning,
compassion, love of others, honesty,
and discipline applied with understanding.
- Paul D. Boyer

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
- James C. Maxwell

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate,
is just one example of the products under development
that will help increase our energy independence.
- Dan Lipinski

If we look to the history of other nations,
ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid,
so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
- James Monroe

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful,
and immediate example in which we are in danger of
turning procreation into manufacture.
- Leon Kass

Yes, yes, no one denies, for example,
that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through
the Living Murray process without money,
no one denies that.
- John Anderson

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
- Elizabeth Taylor

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie,
for example.
he had created an entire myth around himself.
It was as important as his music.
- Lars von Trier

I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing
my hand on their forehead,
and backaches by placing my hand on their back.
It's a powerful example of love that really works.
- Shelley Long

I was captain and should have set the example.
I would lift a minimum of weights.
Mine was natural physical strength.
I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
- Merlin Olsen

There's one of my new poems actually -
is a good example of where my poetry has ended up.
My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between
Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
- Robert Adamson

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.
- Andy Lau

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp
on it and keep it in my world,
whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the
Russian album for example.
- Marc Almond

It would be hard to find a more compelling example
of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
- Jon Kyl

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was -
Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
- John Hume

Most of the tasks we do are for humans.
For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers
so the government can pull money out from my wallet,
but government consists of humans.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto

There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.
- John Warner

The way the tour has developed has been as good an
example of that as you would like to see.
- David Gower

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than,
for example, Dracula.
- Dave Barry

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an
example to young women and I've always given my best
in everything I've tried.
- Cindy Margolis

When something hasn't been around much for a while,
and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes,
they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.
- Stanley Schmidt

People never improve unless they look to some standard
or example higher or better than themselves.
- Tryon Edwards

The attitude is we live and let live.
This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather
short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
- Tom Wolfe

The valor and courage of our young women and men in
the armed services are a shining example to all of the world,
and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
- Bill Frist

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance;
it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
- Salvatore Quasimodo

If you try to do that in pop music -
to play only rare show tunes,
for example - people don't come.
- Bobby Short

I'm very much a lead by example person.
- Alexandra Paul

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

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady;
in English a deadly poison.
A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
- Ambrose Bierce

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have
to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
- Wim Wenders

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
- Don Shula

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