Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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...
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.
Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.
Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
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.
The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.
Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
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...
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.