Example Quotes

"The best sermons are those that are lived."

"Children need models rather than critics."

Joseph Joubert

"What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches."

Karl Menninger

"Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

Jim Henson

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

Albert Schweitzer

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it."

Knute Rockne

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

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

Edmund Burke

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

W. E. B. Du Bois

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."

Robert Fulghum

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

Clarence Budington Kelland

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

Josh Billings

"Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."

William Feather

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

"What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them."

Andrew Combe

"Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be."

David Bly

"Children learn to smile from their parents."

Shinichi Suzuki

"Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation."

Lydia Sigourney

"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."

Roy L. Smith

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

“The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential. I set examples by the way I lead my life.”

“No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.”