“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
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.”
Pope John Paul II
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
Harold S. Geneen
“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
“Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.”
David Letterman
