Example Quotes

“Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.”

“The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.”

“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.”

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

“Young people need models, not critics.”

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

“Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.”

“Always do everything you ask of those you command.”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

“A good example is the best sermon.”

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

“Any teammate of mine that had a boy capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of "Don't do this" and "Don't do that." And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.”

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us."

Umberto Eco

"Children learn what they live."

Dorothy Law Nolte

"Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting."

Brene Brown

"My life is my message."

"The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it."

Confucius

"A leader's most powerful ally is his or her own example."

"If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?"

Confucius

“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me, unintentionally, was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.”

Ben Okri

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”

Mario Cuomo

“When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.”

Ashanti Proverb

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

James Baldwin