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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 (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

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 (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

» Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) Spanish Leader

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

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

» Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American protestant preacher and author

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

» Pericles (495-429) Greek Politician

Practice what you preach.

» Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, historian and biographer

Precept guides, but example draws.

» Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, historian and biographer

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.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

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

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

He teaches me to be good that does me good.

» Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) British author and intellectual

We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

» Barack Obama (1961-?) American Politician

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 (1613-1680) French Writerand philosopher

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 (1891-1980) American author

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

» Montaigne (1533-1592) French statesman, philosopher and essayist

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

» Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) British actor, Writerand director

An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

» Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, historian and biographer

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

» Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) British poet, critic, and philosopher

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