Example Sayings & Quotes
These example sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. - Mary Wollstonecraft
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. - Elbert Green Hubbard
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. - Benjamin Disraeli
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. - Claudius Claudianus
I cannot overemphasize the importance of good grammar. What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: 'Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,' or 'Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.' - Dave Barry
There is no teaching to compare with example. - Sir Baden Powell
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery. - David Hume
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in 'cargo cult science'. It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty -a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid -not only what you think is right about it. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. - Richard Feynman
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. - Alexander Pope
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Arthur James Balfour
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. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well. - Peter F. Drucker
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
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