Epictetus Quotes

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

I don't just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

We must practice what we preach.

You’ve got to embody your message.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Lead by examples, not words.