quotes about Example

Albert Einstein:
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Benjamin Franklin:
Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.
Christian Nevell Bovee:
Example has more followers than reason.
Felix Adler:
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Francis Bacon:
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld:
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
George Bernard Shaw:
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Samuel Smiles:
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Thomas Fuller:
A good example is the best sermon.