Example

“Sheep follow sheep.”

“No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being the better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.”

“The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.”

“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.”

“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”

“You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God — the blood of Christ itself — does not undo the past.”

“Though Manasseh repented, his son Amon followed in the footsteps of his father in his wickedness, but not in his righteousness. Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.”

“Example has more followers than reason.”

“We must give them hope, pride, a desire to fight. Yes, we need to make examples. But examples to follow. What we need.. are heroes.”

“What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.”

“Illustrious Predecessor.”

“Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?”

“None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.”

“Illustrious predecessors.”

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

“Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.”

“Men trust their ears less than their eyes.”

“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”

“Indeed 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.”

“The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and "teaching" has not a tithe of the efficiency of "training". Christ never wrote a "Tract" in his life, but he went about doing good.”

“If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.”

“He was indeed the glassWherein the noble youth did dress themselves.”

“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men … in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”

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

“This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,—That firste he wroughte and afterward he taughte.”

“Since truth and constancy are vain,Then let example be obey'd.”

“Content to follow when we lead the way.”

“I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.”

“Lives of great men all remind usFootprints on the sands of time.”

“He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.”

“What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.”