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

~ Oliver Goldsmith

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

~ Ernest Hemingway

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The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

~ Paul D. Shafer

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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

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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.

~ Ben Johnson

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Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

~ B. C. Forbes

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

~ Bernard Malamud

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

~ Catherine Aird

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A good example is the best sermon.

~ Anonymous

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Children have more need of models than of critics.

~ Carolyn Coats

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

~ Ayn Rand

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

~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

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Example has more followers than reason.

~ Christian Bovee

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Example moves the world more than doctrine.

~ Henry Miller

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Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

~ Edmund Burke

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

~ Albert Schweitzer

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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.

~ Maria Mitchell

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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.

~ B. C. Forbes

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

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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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.

~ Sophia Loren

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

~ Alice Walker

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Nothing is so infectious as example.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

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There is a need for heroism in American life today.

~ Agnes Meyer

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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

~ Mother Teresa

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Mary Parker Follett

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

~ William James

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

~ Elizabeth Smart

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Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

~ Eric Hoffer

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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.

~ Cicely Tyson

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

~ Honoré De Balzac

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Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

~ Ben Johnson

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

~ Henry S. Haskins

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

~ Samuel Johnson

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

~ Emily Post

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

~ Publilius Syrus

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Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

~ Martin Vanbee

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Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.

~ H. G. Bohn

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

~ Brendan Francis

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