| Author |
Quotes |
| Albius Tibullus | Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same. [Lat., Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse cavere tuo.] |
| Anonymous | Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. |
| Christian Nevell Bovee | Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. |
| Claudian | The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler. |
| Claudian | Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. |
| Edmund Burke | Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. |
| Edmund Burke | Illustrious Predecessor. |
| Golda Meir | To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. |
| Henry Fielding | Illustrious predecessors. |
| Homer | Content to follow when we lead the way. |
| Horatius Flaccus | As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. |
| Junius | I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. |
| Martin Van Buren | I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men . . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. |
| Michael Eyquen de Montaigne | He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. |
| Richard Milhous Nixon | If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. |
| Robert Burton | Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? |
| Stanley C Gault | You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. |
| Terence Afer | We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. |
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