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• 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

  Children, Parent, Warning

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5839, e-artnow

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• A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Reading, Men, Stories

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.305

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• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

  Hosea Ballou

  Family, Mom, Education

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• 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

  Moving, Differences, Evil

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.183, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Responsibility, America, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Birthday, Children, Healthy

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• Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

  George Will

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  George F. Will (1999). “Bunts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

  Juvenal

  Depraved

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• Many people are deficient in vitamin D. A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 IU. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.

  Frank C. Garland

  Orange, Glasses, People

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• Example is better than precept.

  Margaret Halsey

  Teaching, Learning

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Hurt, Men, Can Do

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• 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

  Children, Father, Parent

  "Enchiridion". Book by Francis Quarles. Book 3, XVIII, 1640-1641.

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• A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
  finds authority by being under authority
  finds direction by laying down his plans
  finds vision by seeing the needs of others
  finds credibility by being an example
  finds loyalty by expressing compassion
  finds honor by being faithful
  finds greatness by being a servant

  Roy Lessin

  Loyalty, Godly, Compassion

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• We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Half, Care, Study

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.321

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• People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say ''Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.'' They're changed. Trust me.

  George W. Bush

  Ideas, Giving, People

  "THE 2000 CAMPAIGN; Excerpts From Interview With Bush on Campaign Issues and Election Strategy". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2000.

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• Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Months

  "Comedy Central Presents", www.imdb.com. March 19, 2004.

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• In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Men, Role Models

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• "I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Patriotism, Criticism

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• You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

  Stanley Gault

  Pace, Tone, Strategy

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• We must set an example now and move environmentalism from being the philosophy of a passionate minority ... to a way of life that automatically integrates ecology into governmental policy and normal living standards.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Philosophy, Moving, Minorities

  "50 people who could save the planet" by John Vidal, David Adam, Jonathan Watts, Leo Hickman, Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2008.

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• We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

  Peter Yarrow

  Leadership, Shoes, Role Models

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• Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Knowledge, Gnats, Sticks

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, II, XVI, March 31, 1668.

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• Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

  John Balguy

  Children, Hands, Giving

  John Balguy (1790). “Twenty-one sermons on the following subjects ... viz”, p.127

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• No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

  Andre Breton

  Vain, Appeals, Good Examples

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