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Example is more powerful than precept.

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Richard Cecil

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

Example is better than precept.

Margaret Halsey

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Seneca the Younger

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

Shri Radhe Maa

Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.

Sergey Kirov

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

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

Rajneesh

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Dwight L. Moody

There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

John Wooden

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jacques Derrida

Example is the best precept.

Aesop

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Anita Roddick

Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.

Sathya Sai Baba

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