Set Good Examples Quotes & Sayings

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others. — L. Ron Hubbard

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle. — William McDonough

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint. — Veronica Roth

Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do. — Billy Graham

Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. — Joseph Epstein

An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. — Laurence J. Peter

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. — Thomas Otway

Nothing was just one thing; there were worlds within worlds. Those of us who trod the line between were blessed and burdened with both. — Rachel Hartman

The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell; the right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain. — Theresa May

You Can't Live If You Can't Die — Craig L. Delue

Yet we must learn that we should pray even in the most desperate evils and hope for the unexpected and the impossible. And it is for this reason that these examples of the holy patriarchs are set before us. They show that the patriarchs, too, were afflicted by sundry cares and trials and yet received more good than they either understood or had been bold enough to ask for. For we have a God who is able to give more than we understand or ask for. Even though we do not know what we should ask for and how, nevertheless the Spirit of God, who dwells in the hearts of the godly, sighs and groans for us within us with inexpressible groanings and also procures inexpressible and incomprehensible things. — Martin Luther

She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. — Ian McEwan

Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me. — Zig Ziglar