We learn by example and direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcom Gladwell, Blink

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

What good is a vision unless a leader can help others see it? But how? How does a leader best communicate a vision? By embodying it. By personifying it. By living it out.

Bill Hybels

If your leadership is all about you, it will not live beyond you except to be someone’s bad example.

Andy Stanley

MT on example

How you respond to the Gospel is an example to others. So, too, is how you follow Jesus. (See 1 Thess. 1:6-7)

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

Nelson Mandela

No person is so insignificant so as to be sure that their example can do no harm to others.

Example has more followers than reason.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Remember … People are watching you. And, we lead by example … one way or the other.

Sam Parker

One example is worth a thousand arguments.