Dan Webster Quotes

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

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!'

Leaders should not ask others to do what they will not do themselves.

Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

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

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

It's all about leading by example. Am I going to be perfect? Absolutely not.