28 Example Quotes

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered, and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a luster, he that runs may read.

It was an object lesson to have served with him.

Example is the best lesson there is.

Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.

What I mean by the 'pursuit of learning' is not the ability to read classical texts and study ancient history, but to be fully acquainted with conditions all over the world and to have a keen awareness of what is going on abroad and around us. Now from what I can see world trends and conditions are still unsettled, and as long as they remain unsettled there is still a chance that something can be done. First, therefore, we must rectify conditions in our own domain, after which conditions in other domains can be rectified. This having been done, conditions at court can be rectified and finally conditions throughout the whole world can be rectified. First one must set an example oneself and then it can be extended progressively to others. This is what I mean by the 'pursuit of learning.'

Mohammed's truth lay in a holy Book, Christ's in a sacred Life.

Singapore's success shows us that:

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

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

'The Indian community in Fiji have been here over 120 to 130 years and would be the largest potential field of harvest to proselytize in, but we have not a show because of our examples and behaviours towards them. We need to show them the love of Christ first ... before they can respond to Him.'

Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached.

One of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.

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