Richard Cecil Quotes

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing. If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like, 'Yeah! Burgers are cool!'

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

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

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

We must practice what we preach.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

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

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

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

I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.

Practice yourself what you preach.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

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

We can't allow our leaders to play the old 'do as I say, not as I do' game.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

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

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.