Models Quotes

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus

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.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

Brendan Francis

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

Talmud

A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.

Dr. Joseph Collins

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Voltaire

If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

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 marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Benjamin Franklin

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

Mary Parker Follett

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

Elizabeth Smart

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

Honoré de Balzac

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Henry S. Haskins

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

Charles H. Fowler

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 us.

Francesco Guicciardini

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.

Plutarch

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oliver Goldsmith

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Bernard Malamud

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

A good example is the best sermon.

Anonymous

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Ayn Rand

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Example has more followers than reason.

Christian Bovee

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Cathy Warner Weatherford

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

Baltasar Gracián

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?

Jeanette Winterson

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.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

Werner Heisenberg

During the shoot in November 2003, I was vaguely aware of the stylist’s sulky demeanor and eye-rolling vibe, but I blocked her out. Some fashion people are snotty drama queens; this is not news. Whatever was going on with her, I was determined to be positive and not get infected by her energy. Later, Fiorella told me that the entire time I was in makeup, the stylist had been clomping up and down the hall, sputtering into her cell phone, “I can’t believe I have to style a FAT GIRL!”tBelieve it, bitch.

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