Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Good
  • Control

• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Father
  • Example

• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Look
  • Back
  • Confusing

• The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Example
  • Privilege
  • Russia

• Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Powerful
  • Advice
  • Example

• I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Daughter
  • Example

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Years
  • Evolution
  • Example

• Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Example
  • Leave
  • Medical

• I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Dream
  • Example
  • University

• The professionals must set a good example.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Good
  • Example
  • Good Example

• None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Society
  • Example
  • Privilege

• It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Place
  • Confusing

• My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!

  

  Manika
  • Rock
  • Rap
  • Confusing

• I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Better

• My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

  

  William P. Young
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Difficult

• Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Government
  • Moving
  • Pay

• I know not what to do, my mind is divided

  

  Sappho
  • Mind
  • Knows
  • Divided

• This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Life
  • History
  • Profound

• Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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