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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.


James Russell Lowell

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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
SENECA The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and ver...
LORD BYRON For example, as a white woman, I'm shaped by my class, my gender, my race, my sex. My life is shaped...
ABBY FERBER As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience...
RUFINUS In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the pers...
MOLLY RINGWALD Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us
JOHN POWELL I'm very much a lead by example person.
ALEXANDRA PAUL The first and the sustainable function that any person claiming to be leader, is required to do is t...
ANUJ SOMANY If one wants to enervate the enthusiasm of talent in any company, then he should be made to report t...
ANUJ SOMANY The life we lead is the lesson we teach.
KEVIN KNEBL There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, a...
GERD DE LEY I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes.
JANICE DICKINSON What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thous...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN In all of life, we encounter people who accept or betray us; there is no other way around it! The fr...
TIMOTHY WATERHOUSE Give someone the opportunity to have their life changed by you setting a championship example.
JOHN DI LEMME If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstanc...
JOSEPH LELYVELD Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK One thing is sure. Women and girls will have their first vision of a female network anchor who is an...
GLORIA STEINEM I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a gr...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly un...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the...
MUHAMMAD ALI There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDING The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
FRANCIS OF ASSISI There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the t...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at th...
ECKHART TOLLE A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and ...
BILL WALTON There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...
GRETA GARBO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK Precept guides, but example draws.
PROVERB Example is the best precept.
AESOP Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
PETER SHAFFER One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the conten...
MEISTER ECKHART Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expe...
EVAN BAYH People are shaped by their emotions. That which profoundly affects them has a place in their hearts.
SAIM .A. CHEEDA I try to lead by example.
USAIN BOLT Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect exampl...
ROBERT CARO Anne is always a person who leads by example in training and I think now she has results in her race...
DAVID MARSH For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON A role model is a person whose behaviour, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, espec...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have t...
LEMONY SNICKET The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A good example is far better than a good precept.
DWIGHT L. MOODY Example is always more efficacious than precept.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SENECA Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...
LAWRENCE DURRELL Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who hav...
ALBERT CAMUS Not one person would admit that they didn't want me to wear a bikini because of their aesthetic ...
JENNIFER ARMINTROUT He's a terrific leader who barely says a thing; he leads more by example and is one of the hardest w...
BILL TRACEY They're two of the best captains I have ever seen. They have done a good job of leading by example-b...
WHITNEY HITE One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the ...
CHARLES STURT We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Life is not a one day journey and we must journey in life taking a step after a step, and considerin...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and ...
MICHELLE OBAMA I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both...
CAROLYN SPRING BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva --a rather ...
AMBROSE BIERCE There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If a person has a quality of life and an expectation for improving that are both by all evidence, by...
DR. BARRY TEPPERMAN The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES KETTERING The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there...
CHARLES F. KETTERING I have a dream, that one day all three of my children will one day, grow up in a society where they ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example...
NELSON MANDELA People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circum...
CHARLES FRAZIER Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color,...
STEDMAN GRAHAM Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
JOHN GREEN The future is shaped by what the past has to offer... So if your shapes don't quite look like you pl...
WILSON J. WASHINGTON III O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
BIBLE No one could endure lasting adversity if it continued to have the same force as when it first hit us...
SENECA It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and ...
JOHN RUSKIN Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA They are normal people who have been put where they are, and whose actions and feelings have been mo...
WILLIAM H. MAULDIN The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined b...
ARISTOTLE There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wive...
JOHN FOWLES Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
CASSANDRA CLARE It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rig...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it ve...
RALPH FIENNES Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
CASSANDRA CLARE We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Bridge miscommunications by talking to parents, hearing their stories, and learning how they’ve sh...
JASON L. MA There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he find...
VIOLA SPOLIN Marin is one of those silent leaders who lead just through sheer work ethic and by example.
SHANNON MILLER At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between...
SUE AUGUSTINE She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted h...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Most people look at their community and wonder just what one person can do to change it. Susan is a ...
JULIE GRADDY There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nancy Ann and Ray Hunt have observed and been moved by the personal devastation caused in people's l...
DR. KERN WILDENTHAL We are shaped by every endured situation.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Debates, in the modern political system, are not won by the person who knows the most information; t...
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For the fallen and the weak.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Patience revels in misfortunes.
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