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Do but set the example yourself, and I will follow you. Example is the best precept.—AESOP, The Two Crabs
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For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.—Bible, Isaiah 28:10
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. A generous habit of thought and action carries with it an incalculable influence.—C. N. BOVEE
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Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.—BURKE, On a Regicide Peace
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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
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So our lives
In acts exemplary, not only win
Ourselves good names, but doth to others give
Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, Bussy D'Ambois
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No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.—LORD CLARENDON
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Of all commentaries upon the Scriptures, good examples are the best and the liveliest.—JOHN DONNE
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Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies", yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.—THOMAS FULLER
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.—GOLDSMITH
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People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.—GOLDSMITH
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I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.—EDGAR GUEST, Sermons We See
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The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.—ROBERT HALL
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Four precepts: to break off customs; to shake off spirits ill-disposed; to meditate on youth; to do nothing against one's genius.—HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books
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We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.—ROWLAND HILL
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Example is always more efficacious than precept.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.—KANT
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A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.—THOMAS A KEMPIS, Of the Imitation of Christ
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Nothing is so infectious as example.—CHARLES KINGSLEY
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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.—LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life
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Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.—PHAEDRUS, Fables
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but the fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.—PLUTARCH, Lives
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When old age is evil, youth can learn no good.—Proverb
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One ill example spoils many good.—Proverb
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The example of good men is visible philosophy.—Proverb
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Ill examples are like contagious diseases.—Proverb
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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears. The effect of precepts is, therefore, slow and tedious, while that of examples is summary and effectual.—SENECA
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He arrests him on it;
And follows close the rigour of the statute,
To make him an example.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
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There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously, when we walk uprightly.—MME. SWETCHINE
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My advice is to consult the lives of other men, as one would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for imitation.—TERENCE
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.—MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.—WALT WHITMAN, By Blue Ontario's Shore
