Example Quotes
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The example could encourage others who only fear to start.
Jose Rizal
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood
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I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.
Paul Krugman
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The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Zeno of Elea
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
Carl Zimmer
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I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.
Sean Elliott
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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius
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For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.
Bill Frisell
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By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.
Francesco Guicciardini
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It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.
Miranda Otto
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For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
William S. Burroughs
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Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.
Anthony Robbins
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.
Marcel Proust
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As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
Bill Clinton
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Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.
Summer Sanders