Huston Smith Quotes

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

There's no crime in being a poor role model.

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

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

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

When the government leads by the right example, who dares to go astray.

In totality, I take care not be a bad influence on youngsters.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

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.

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

There is no teaching to compare with example.

My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

Not every artist is a role model.

My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.