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

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

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

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

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.             —James Baldwin

Children have more need of models than of critics.

—Carolyn Coats

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the slights of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.      —Francesco Guicciardini

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.        —Bill Pollard

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

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person... who is worthy of emulation.              —Paul D. Shafer

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

Nothing is so contagious as example, and our every really good or bad action inspires a similar one.

—François, duc de La Rochefoucauld