“A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.”
John Ashbery
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the people under you and put results over politics. That's all the charisma you'll really need to succeed.”
Dyan Machan
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
Harold S. Geneen
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.”
Oscar Wilde
“If we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can't ask that other nations do that to our soldiers.”
Mark Kimmitt
