Example Quotes

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

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 think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?