Example Quotes

Example Quotes & Sayings

These example quotes and example sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Our government, teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis D. Brandeis


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


Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of Love, and clothe Religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error. - Mary Baker Eddy


There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. - Anne Sophie Swetchine


There is no teaching to compare with example. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell


It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. - George Washington


Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means, to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal, would bring terrible retribution. - Louis D. Brandeis


Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


There is some advice that is too good, the advice to love your enemies, for example. - Edgar Watson 'Ed' Howe