People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

—Oliver Goldsmith

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

—Chinese proverb

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both...

—Francis Bacon

Example is not the main thing in influencing others — it’s the only thing.

—Albert Schweitzer

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

—Mark Twain

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

—Benjamin Franklin

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

—Catherine Aird

Children have more need of models than of critics.

—Carolyn Coats

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

—Robert Fulghum

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

—Stephen Jobs

In the years since I began following the ways of my grandmothers I have come to value the teachings, stories, and daily examples of living which they shared with me. I pity the younger girls of the future who will miss out on meeting some of these fine old women.

—Beverly Hungry Wolf

Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.

—The Midrash

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

—Rachel Carson

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

—Ernest Hemingway

People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don’t disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won’t disappoint us.

—Walt Disney

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.

—Warren Bennis