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...
A good example is the best sermon.
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.
Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.
Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable mar...
The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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.
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