Teaching by Example Quotes

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

We must become what we wish to teach.

Example is the best precept.

Watch what you say and do because little eyes are watching you.

I love being a mom. And I think what I love the most is the way it makes me think about what's important and what's not important. What to fight for and what to just be cool with. What it is that I'm teaching through example and what it is that I was taught that I don't want to teach.

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God.

I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in their life who's a good male influence and support. There's no cookie-cutter way of raising children and no family is the same, but the most important thing is that children are loved, supported and cared for, whether it's coming from a relative or a friend or a grandfather or a good school teacher. Anyone. Children just need good examples and mentoring to teach them and show them how to do things.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.