Exemplary Quotes

• One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.

  John W. Gardner

  Character, Responsibility, Community

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• Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

  Confucius

  Adversity, Faces, Steadfast

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Teacher, Excellence, Mediocrity

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.142, John Wiley & Sons

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• A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

  Anita Brookner

  Liars, Lying, Men

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Integrity, Ethnicity, Voice

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• Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

  Michael Dirda

  Teacher, Instructors, Advertisements

  Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.14, Macmillan

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• There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.

  Bruno Walter

  Spiritual, Children, School

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• A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

  Martin E. Marty

  Typical, Saint, Culture

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• Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,
  small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class
  thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Punishment, Class

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• The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, World, Way

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Giving, Moral

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.35, Harriman House Limited

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• Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Strong, Flower

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• This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

  Livy

  Eye, Records, Action

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 10,

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• There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Laughing, Live In The Moment, Way To Live

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  In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, Rocks, Facts

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. September 1999.

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• You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

  Victoria Moran

  Giving Up, Believe, People

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• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Athlete, Equality

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• Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Assuming, Life Is

  "When Amis met Updike ..." by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

  Ratan Tata

  Ethics, Entity, Left Behind

  "Talk Asia" with Sara Sidner, transcripts.cnn.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

  William Stringfellow

  Religious, Mean, Godly

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• And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music, of course, is exemplary. One reason we love music so much is that it's so complete and the notes harmonize with one another in time to make a beautiful, ideal statement; not like our daily life where the rhythms are more subtle or hard to find or are constantly being interrupted or changed in ways that aren't so easy to handle.

  Mel Weitsman

  Beautiful, Moving, Way

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• So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

  George Chapman

  Life, Winning, Names

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.141

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• Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

  Vince Lombardi

  Truth, Organization, Coaching

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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