Top 1200 Good Example Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

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.

If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

The best thing we can do to save the planet is set a good example for our kids at home.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

My mission is to stay healthy and productive and serve as a good example.

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

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

I really want to make a big mark in athletics, to be a legend and be a good example to kids.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

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

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.

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.

You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and it's the human order. He set the example and model for Muslims for all the different endeavors. He is not only the example of the spiritual life, but he is also an example for our life in this world.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it.

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.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

If you're a good fighter on the street, you don't have to tell anybody that you're good at fighting. Let someone else talk about how great you are at this or that or whatever is the case. And if no one finds out then no one finds out, that's fine too. But I think leading by example is always the strongest.

It's important to teach your kids the value of being active by setting a good example.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

If you've got good chemistry at the top, it's an enormous help. It's easy to have good chemistry with some, not so easy with others. With [Robert Mugabe], for example.

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

I set a good example with my way of being, eating, acting, speaking.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Shambhala does have unique teachings, as do many Buddhist traditions. For example, certain teachings within Shambhala have to do with raising the personal windhorse, or the energy of the individual, so a person has good fortitude to be able to live a good life.

I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future.

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

I always try and give a good example to children who follow me.

In order to be successful you need to have a good team with a good core, so my whole thing is that I was always encouraging my teammates, and I try to lead them by example to play together, to play as a team.

Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

Paul had the biggest heart in the world and he was such a good example.

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.

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