Mark Waid Quotes

Everything we do as teachers has moral overtones.

I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

There's no crime in being a poor role model.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

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

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

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.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

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

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.