Henry Fielding Quotes

The most powerful moral influence is example.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

I'm convinced that a person in my position must provide a positive example to people.

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.