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Example is the best precept. — © Aesop

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

Aesop

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Aesop

Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles

Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba

The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with all who share the gift of life. A compassionate heart provides a firm ground for this precept.

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

Example is better than precept.

Margaret Halsey

Margaret Halsey

Example is more powerful than precept.

Aesop

Aesop

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

Seneca the Younger

Seneca the Younger

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Seneca the Elder

Seneca the Elder

To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.

Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

M. Russell Ballard

M. Russell Ballard

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

Richard Furman

Richard Furman

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

Ellen G. White

Ellen G. White

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Seneca the Younger

Seneca the Younger

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