Negative Example Quotes

Faults are soon copied.

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

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

The parent is the first role model. As the parent lives, so will the child, and the use of drugs and alcohol in front of children is the worst thing that parents could do.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

The great lesson I got from my parents is how not to treat your children. To break that chain, even if I don't do anything else, at least I've done that.

It's a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn't qualify as a role model. It's just sad.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

I'm not really a role model; just don't do what I do.

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?

I don't want to be a bad role model.

College kids, don't be taking examples from me.

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.