Example Quotes
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Benjamin Franklin:Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
Christian Nevell Bovee:Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.
Francis Bacon, sr.:Example has more followers than reason.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld:He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
George Bernard Shaw:The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
Samuel Smiles:If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Thomas Fuller:It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
A good example is the best sermon.
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