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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• I'm keenly aware of how important it is to set a good example. You may not think that your kids are paying attention to you, especially with something like money, but they probably are.

  Michelle Singletary

  Kids, Thinking, Important

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

  Andrew Greeley

  Thinking, Example, Kind

  "Father Andrew Greeley Extended Interview". Interview With Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. May 10, 2002.

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• Being a good example teaches others to be good.

  Aesop

  Example, Teach, Be Good

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• A good example has twice the value of good advice

  Albert Schweitzer

  Advice, Example, Values

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• Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Self, Joy

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

  Oren Arnold

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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• Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Example, Wells

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• There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

  Mark Twain

  Example, Frustrating

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• I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Hard Work, Thinking

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• It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Life, Children, Light

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• We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Numbers, Example, Growing

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• It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

  Yuan T. Lee

  People, Role Models, Important

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• It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good-it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Memories, Real, Long

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. She's really been able to captivate men and women in a way that's appealing, which is a tough line to follow.

  Spencer Grammer

  Men, Thinking, Order

  "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2013.

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• God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Example, Want, Observing

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2012). “Making Sense of Suffering”, p.13, Rose Publishing Inc

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• I'm a bit tight with money, but so what? I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask myself if IKEA's customers can afford it... I could regularly travel first class, but having money in abundance doesn't seem like a good reason to waste it.. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the IKEA employees.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Ikea, Class, Giving

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• No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

  Samuel Smiles

  Giving Up, Race, Forever

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.

  John Walter Bratton

  Children, Father, Daddy

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• I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

  Jenna Elfman

  Thinking, Example, Television

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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