Example Quotes · Page 47

My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

— Valerie Azlynn

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

— Albert Einstein

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers.

— Sunita Williams

After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

— Vin Weber

If things are not going well on the field, then it's up to me to lead by example.

— Carlos Tevez

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

— John Ashbery

I'm happy that Holloway is the champion. An example, someone who deserved being where he is.

— Jose Aldo

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working…

— Wilferd Peterson

Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not…

— Ehud Barak

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this…

— Mary J. Blige

So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and…

— Marci Shimoff

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important…

— Dean Acheson

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small…

— Aristotle

The fact of the matter is, we need to have a very clear message. We haven't had that from the current president.…

— Chris Christie

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we…

— Barack Obama

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you…

— Bono

I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married…

— Wangari Maathai

Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing…

— Martin Jacques

But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem…

— Mark Sutcliffe

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend…

— Marilynne Robinson

Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though…

— D. A. Carson

Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back,…

— Dan Wells

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

— Georges Simenon

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to…

— Nikki Sixx

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to…

— William McKinley

Ronaldo is the best of his generation and a huge example for young players.

— Matthijs de Ligt

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do;…

— Thomas Hardy

I always try to reuse and rewear things. It's realistic, and it's the most sustainable, and it's the example I want to…

— Maisie Peters

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

— James Madison

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.

— Kay Robertson

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

— Charlton Heston

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an…

— Matthew Henry

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the…

— William James

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of…

— Charles Dickens

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.

— Zooey Deschanel

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to…

— Claude Monet

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

— Warren Farrell