Example Quotes - Page 3

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.