An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. – Proverb
Practice what you preach. – Proverb
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. – Christian Nevell Bovee
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. – Andre Breton
What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. – Confucius
The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship. – Barbara De Angelis
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. – George Eliot
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing preaches better than the act. – Benjamin Franklin
He teaches me to be good that does me good. – Thomas Fuller
You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. – Stanley C. Gault
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. – Theodore Hesburgh
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer
They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. – Samuel Johnson
We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal
Folks dont like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. Youre not gonna change any of them by talking right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. – Harper Lee
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. – Henry Miller
