Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let him down.

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

I just want to lead by example.

I try very hard to live my life in an exemplary way, which is, you know, 'Shine bright like Frankie.'

You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.

It is so key to me to be a good role model for young girls and someone their mom would want them to look up to.

I really just think that we've got to have a positive influence on kids in general. And really understanding people are going to look up to me, so why aren't I doing something to be positive about it?

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us.

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.

As actors, you are social figures, and you are setting an example for people to follow, so I feel very blessed that my work has allowed me to influence people in some way.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.