Exemplary Quotes

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.