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A good example is the best sermon.

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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Phillips Brooks

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An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

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Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it

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Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

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Don't be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals.

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Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy.

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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Hosea Ballou

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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Michel de Montaigne

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Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

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Example is the best precept.

Aesop

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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other

Edmund Burke

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Henry Miller

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Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

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

Mark Twain

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He teaches me to be good that does me good.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

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19

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

George Bernard Shaw

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Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the

Edward Young

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Eric Hoffer

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Live as you wish your kids would.

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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

André Breton

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Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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25

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Benjamin Franklin

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Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.

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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Practice what you preach.

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Precept guides, but example draws.

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Produce great men, the rest follows.

Walt Whitman

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The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Barbara De Angelis

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32

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

George Eliot

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33

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

Seneca the Younger

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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35

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

Mark Twain

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36

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Samuel Johnson

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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Humphrey

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38

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Juvenal

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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Brigham Young

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40

Well done, is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

Confucius

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Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Dwight L. Moody

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A good example is the best sermon.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it

Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

Don't be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals.

Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Example is leadership.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Example is the best precept.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

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

He teaches me to be good that does me good.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Live as you wish your kids would.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

Nothing preaches better than the act.

Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

Practice what you preach.

Precept guides, but example draws.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

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

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Well done, is better than well said.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.