Inspirational Quotes on Examples

“The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.”

“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”

“There is great force hidden in a gentle command.”

“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.”

“When our children see us clinging to the promises of God, they will grow up trusting in His goodness. If we fail as adults in praying for and praying with the next generation, then they will become spiritually unsure.”

“More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.”

“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that way yourself.”

“More depends on my walk than talk.”

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”

“Emulation is the devil-shadow of aspiration. To excite it is worthy only of the commonplace vulgar schoolmaster, whose ambition is to show what fine scholars he can turn out, that he may get the more pupils.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.”

“A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.”

“You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.”

“Children take more notice of what their parents do, than what they say. Actions speak louder than words.”