69 quotes found
“Children have more need of models than of critics.”
“Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.”
“We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.”
“Example has more followers than reason.”
“Example moves the world more than doctrine.”
“Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.”
“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 ou...”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“There is a need for heroism in American life today.”
“Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.”
“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.”
“Imitation is a necessity of human nature.”
“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.”
“Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.”
“Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.”
