Example Quotes

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Benjamin Disraeli

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.
Author Unknown, from The Road To Success is Always Under Construction

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good example is the best sermon.
English Proverb

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
Mark Twain

Example is the best precept.
Aesop

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson

Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Nevell Bovee

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
George F. Will

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You must inspire people to give it all they have by using yourself as an example.
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Common Traits of a Coach

What you have accomplished in the past is a much stronger example than talking about what you are capable of doing in the future. Actions do speak louder than words!
Catherine Pulsifer, from How Valuable Are You?

There are numerous examples of people throughout the world who have overcome handicaps to achieve great success.
Dare 2 B U

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.
Francis Bacon

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
Benjamin Franklin

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
Thomas a Kempis

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
Henry Wheeler Shaw