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Lead By Example Quotes

    “You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith

      “If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me.  If I’m selfish with you, you will be selfish with me.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

        “The greatest reflection of your priorities is your time. Whatever you say about what matters to you, the true test is where you place your time. So if you say your priorities are your partner or your kids or your family or your health, that statement will only be true if your calendar reflects it.” ~ Nick Crocker, Medium

          “Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.” ~ Epictetus, The Art of Living

            “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others, as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” ~ Thomas J. Watson, Former Chairman of IBM

            Credibility requires 3 things:

              Credibility requires 3 things

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              “To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

                “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

                  “Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

                    “Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” ~ U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone

                      “Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.” ~ John C. Maxwell

                        “I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

                          “There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man’s heart and soul, the man’s worth and actions, determine his standing.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

                            “What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                              “The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

                                “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.” ~ Albert Einstein

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