Example Quotes
Enjoy these short example quotes where you will find sayings and quotations on example. May these inspirational brief quotes inspire you to set an example that others will want to follow. And may your example be an inspiration to others."What you have accomplished in the past is a much stronger example than talking about what you are capable of doing in the future."
Catherine Pulsifer
"I've learned that children's eyes observe more than there ears ever hear and the example we set for them determines their actions."
Author Unknown
"A good example is the best sermon."
English Proverb
"A good example has twice the value of good advice."
Author Unknown
"Example is contagious behavior."
Charles Reade
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
Edmund Burke
"Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves."
H. W. Shaw
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."
Goldsmith
"A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice."
Author Unknown
"One of the saddest examples is an employed person who has the opportunity to take course to improve his skills, but instead, does nothing until he finds he no longer has a job."
Catherine Pulsifer
More short quotes about examples and concise words on setting an example:
"Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along their own lines."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh."
Rev. R. Cecil
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing."
Franklin
"You must inspire people to give it all they have by using yourself as an example."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer
"Example has more followers than reason."
Christian Nevell Bovee
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means."
Albert Einstein
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer
"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'."
Richard Bach
"Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice."
Author Unknown
"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
Francis Bacon
"Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example"
Phaedrus
"The Coach sets an example for others to follow. The behavior of the Coach, especially when all is not going well, is especially important. The Coach cannot say one thing and do another."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer
"I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one."
Thomas Jefferson
"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."
William Feather
"Example is the best precept."
Aesop
"Example is better than following it."
Ambrose Bierce
"I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one."
Thomas Jefferson
"Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example."
Phaedrus
"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
Francis Bacon, Sr