Example Quotes

• The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Power
  • Military
  • Example

• We need to show how we really are and how we really are is that I'm the Dad, that's the Mom, these are the kids. This is how you respect us. It's "Yes Sir", "No Sir", "Yes Mam" and "No Mam". We don't see a lot of that on TV, so I just want to give an example and show examples on how a family should be versus how families are portrayed on TV.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Kids
  • Giving
  • Dad

• I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

  

  Riley Keough
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  William James
  • May
  • Faith
  • Example

• Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Example

• More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends. Interesting Computer Ancient Creation Mathematical Sixty Algorithms Bending Defining Definitions Digital Ends Example Humans Ideas Matter Years Calculations Concepts Years Ago

  

  David Berlinski
  • Interesting
  • Creation
  • Computer

• Actions speak louder than words, and the best way to set an example is to just go out and do a good job.

  

  Mena Massoud
  • Job
  • Actions
  • Example

• And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

  

  George W. Norris
  • Example
  • Follow
  • Disarming

• Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

  

  Tony Blair
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Technology

• Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Children
  • Abuse
  • Branches

• Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.

  

  Nathan Eldon Tanner
  • Youth
  • Wandering
  • Parental

• France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.

  

  Bruno Le Maire
  • Food
  • Example
  • France

• As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Certain

• Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Gone
  • Flow
  • Sand

• I'm trying to do the right things, especially on the ice. Even when I talk to the media, I try to not be obnoxious or be rude. I try to approach you with respect. Same thing when I played, especially if you're the captain, you wanna try and set an example.

  

  Nicklas Lidstrom
  • Example
  • Approach
  • Obnoxious

• In fact, Bill Clinton's an excellent example of what he should be doing when he realizes that he's not invulnerable. He realized two things: his invulnerability was contextualized in two things: junk food, and he had a problem with certain kinds of women.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • Certain
  • Excellent
  • Clinton

• An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Opinion
  • Artist
  • Example

• I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Proud
  • Literacy
  • Pretentious

• I’m kind of a quiet leader, and I just try to lead by example. But then sometimes you have to say something.

  

  Chamique Holdsclaw
  • Leader
  • Say
  • Quiet

• Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

  

  Ricky Schroder
  • Energy
  • Comfortable
  • Directing

• Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

  

  William Penn
  • Failure
  • Authority
  • Failing

• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Democracy
  • Ideology
  • Wall Street

• I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Good
  • Story
  • Example

• I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

  

  Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Example

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