To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush al...
It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed...
I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm...
Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets...
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.
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