The value of another's experience is to give us hope, not to tell us how or whether to proceed.

- Peter Block

The most powerful moral influence is example.

- Huston Smith

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

- Robert Fulghum

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Albert Einstein

Example has more followers than reason.

- Christian Nevell Bovee

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

- Felix Adler

Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven.

- Benjamin Franklin

A good example is the best sermon.

- Thomas Fuller

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

- Samuel Smiles

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

- Francis Bacon