We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.
A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.
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.
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.
A good example is the best sermon.
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
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...
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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.
Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.
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...
Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
