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Precept guides, but example draws.
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An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
-Proverb
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Practice what you preach.
-Proverb
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Example is the best precept.
-Aesop
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
-Hosea Ballou
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
-Andre Breton
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
-Phillips Brooks
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
-Edmund Burke
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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
-Confucius
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The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
-Barbara De Angelis
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
-George Eliot
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing preaches better than the act.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Well done, is better than well said.
-Benjamin Franklin
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He teaches me to be good that does me good.
-Thomas Fuller
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You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.
-Stanley C. Gault
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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
-Theodore Hesburgh
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
-Eric Hoffer
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This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
-Hubert Humphrey
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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
-Samuel Johnson
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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
-Juvenal
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
-Harper Lee
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
-Henry Miller
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Books about Example
