Edmund Spenser Quotes

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

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

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

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

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

Example is more powerful than precept.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

I think I am example for our scene, so I have to be an example for the rest.

You can only lead by example.

Example is better than precept.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

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

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

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