example quotes

Albert Einstein: 

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

Benjamin Franklin: 

Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Christian Nevell Bovee: 

Example has more followers than reason.

Francis Bacon, sr.: 

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld: 

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

George Bernard Shaw: 

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Samuel Smiles: 

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.

Thomas Fuller: 

A good example is the best sermon.