Bad Example Quotes

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

... one of the most unjust wars ever waged by a stronger nation against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

… Smoking sets a bad example.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

... miserable and almost friendless objects are ushered upon the stage of life, inheriting those vices, which idleness, and the bad example of their parents naturally produce.

The beautiful thing about having family that has diabetes is knowing what not to do. I got an uncle that thinks insulin is supposed to enable him to eat cake.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

He is guilty if he wastes the money of the people, the taxes which they have paid, in luxury, pomp, and debauchery. He who should improve the morals of the people, be the guardian of the law, and improve their education should not pervert them by his bad example.

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services, or money from the government without earning them. The onlookers easily adopt an attitude that they, too, are entitled to such transfers. They have fewer examples of hardworking, self-reliant people in their families or neighborhoods.

I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.

I have respect for Chisora as a fighter but not as a human. He set a bad example for boxing and all fighters. He came from Great Britain, but he is not a gentleman.

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

Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart.

A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

Eddie had the perfect template of what not to do. His big brother did all the wrong things.

There is no such thing as a bad boy. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example and bad thinking ... Understanding and not punishment is the solution for what is commonly called 'juvenile delinquency'