Favorite Quotations ~  Example Now, Discover Your Strengths

"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team." ~ Lee Iacocca

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ~ Mark Twain

I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ~ Don Shula

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example. ~ Johnetta B. Cole

A good example is the best sermon. ~ Benjamin Franklin

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~ Judith Martin

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing. ~ Albert Schweitzer

It's not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. ~ Chinese Proverb

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like ~ La Rouchefouchauld

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

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously, when we walk uprightly. ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury? ~ Ingvar Kamprad, IBD, 9/27/04

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. ~ Danish Proverb

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to serve as a horrible warning. ~ Catherine Aird

If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example. ~ Walter Besant