Nothing is more contagious than a bad example.
I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.
From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
When you can't find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example.
Not setting the 'proper and accepted' religious example for them conjured up images of the bad mother, the worst mother. Yet wouldn't the example of a mother being true to her journey, taking a stand against patriarchy, and questing for spiritual mea...
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
Jack Lucas: Where would King Arthur be without Guinevere? Parry: Happily married, probably. Jack Lucas: Well, that's a bad... that's a bad example.
Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only...
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
"For example" is not proof.
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their virtues. They see men drinking, smoking, swearing; so these poor little fellows sedulously imitate such bad habits, thinking they are making them...
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
