Good Examples Quotes

• Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

  George Washington

  Powerful, Example, Influence

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.479

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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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• Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

  Doug Larson

  Children, Example, Doe

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• There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

  Mark Twain

  Example, Frustrating

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• Am I a good example? Well, at least I'm not too thin. I eat.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Example, Wells

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• I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.

  Geri Halliwell

  Mother, Daughter, Thinking

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• We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Religious, Civilization

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• The stupid vamp just asked me to marry him. Here, now? As if looking like I just died is how I wanted to be proposed to." Joy did a lap around Kylie's heart. "And you said?" Holiday took a sip of water. "I asked him if we couldn't just live together in sin." "And?" "He told me it wouldn't be a good example to our students. So...I agreed to marry him." She pushed a hand against her forehead. "Dear God, what am I getting myself into?

  C.C. Hunter

  Stupid, Heart, Holiday

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• I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call it what it really is, which is a mini-series. "24" is a really good example, in that there was a definitive beginning, middle and end for the first season. They had a slightly different format than we have, but the second season just retained Jack Bauer and a few other players, with the same basic format and idea, but it was a completely different show.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Wise, Player, Nbc

  Source: collider.com

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• Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.

  Susan Davis

  Agency, Years, Priorities

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.

  Simon Weston

  Example, World, Boo Boo

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

  Nicholas Royle

  Writing, Example, Form

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and their allies clearly stood back - clearly in the eyes of Muslims - and basically said to the Israelis, "Do what you need to do, and we'll hold the ring for you and not call a cease-fire." That perception in the Muslim world very much played to the anti-American sentiment.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they get built anyway for the games, everybody has kind of wishful thinking about what the afterlife of these spaces is going to be. If there is not demand for it before the Olympics, there's probably not going to be demand for it afterwards.

  Gary Hustwit

  Thinking, Games, Cities

  Source: www.salon.com

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• My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over the head with a Bible but just being a good example and always conducting myself in a Christian-like manner.

  Dwight Howard

  Christian, Nba, Goal

  "NBA All-Star Dwight Howard talks about family, faith and destiny". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

  Lydia Davis

  Hard Work, Trying, Example

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of sympathy, empathy, reciprocity, a willingness to follow social rules. Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores.

  Frans de Waal

  Dog, Animal, Empathy

  "Confessions of a Lonely Atheist" by Natalie Angier, partners.nytimes.com. January 14, 2001.

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• This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, Example, Politics

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• Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

  Ben Jonson

  Age, Example, Youth

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.251, Manchester University Press

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• Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Example, Today, Lawyer

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• I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands everyday is super revolutionary.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Hands, Ideas, Collaboration

  "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  Ian MacKaye

  Beautiful, Quality, Example

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

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• The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

  Joseph Addison

  Honor, Mind, Example

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.183

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• Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

  Tom Coburn

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Example

  "Some Lawmakers Suggest Pay Freeze to Help Hurricane Recovery". Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. September 26, 2005.

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