#example

Don't focus so much on who is following you, that you forget to lead. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#leading-by-example #life #leadership

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating. ↗

— John Yoo

#benefits #cannot #convention #cooperating #example

In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other guidance than Your example. But did it never occur to You that man would disregard Your example, even question it, as well as Your truth, when he was subjected to so fearful a burden as freedom of choice? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#divine-truth #freedom-of-choice #freedom

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. ↗

— Stanley Spencer

#big #bring #double #double meaning #everyday

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it. ↗

— Ned Beatty

#good #grumpy #i #man #old

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#aspects #carry #during #economic #economic problems

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ↗

— Confucius

#before #example #go #laborious #people

Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children. ↗

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#example #morality #parenting #young #education

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#be kind #bullying #comedy #else #example

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#being #continues #earns #example #for example