George Washington Quotes

Nothing is so catching as example.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

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

as wax receives its impression from a seal, so the character of human life is shaped by example.

Example is more powerful than precept.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.

Nothing is so contagious as example.

There is a transcendent power in example.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.