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Teaching By Example is serving as a desireable model to others.

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TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

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Heroes

Teaching By Example Hero: Danielle

My heroine is my 9-year-old niece, Danielle. Recently she moved to Indiana to live with her mother for the school year. In the last three months that I have spent time with her, she has taught me more about life than she can imagine. I thought thi... Read more

Teaching By Example Hero: Manuel

My hero is my grandfather Manuel. He is one of the orignal Navajo code talkers. He is still alive. 90 years old. He fought in world war 2 and he has showed me that you can overcome anything. He also was one of the children who went to the horrible... Read more

Teaching By Example Hero: Bessie "Ma Kelly"

My grandmother used to own a restaurant when I was younger. She had about 16 kids herself and never had much money but when the opportunity came for her to work for herself she did. She was a strong Christian woman. All of her food was southern ho... Read more

Teaching By Example Hero: Juana Betty

My mother was and still is my hero. She came to the USA because she believed in the American dream. She worked hard day and night to give us, her six children, the life she could only dream of. She taught us to love and forgive and to never give u... Read more

Teaching By Example Hero: J

When I think of heroes, I think of my sister. Although she is accomplished professionally, it is how she has lived her life that makes her my role model. She has traveled the world, climbed Mt. Everest and Mt. Kilimanjaro, ridden the Rockies, scal... Read more
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Personal Stories

2Xtreme

My name is Joey and I'm 15 years old. Up until I was about 13 years old, I grew up a really unstable home. I failed just about every class I took because I felt like I had no meaning in the world, and I was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Ev... Read more

Kindness at the Vet

In tenth grade, I began volunteering at a veterinary hospital that was run by a family friend in order to get experience for what I thought would be my future job. As it turns out; the experience I gained at the hospital taught me the opposite: th... Read more

The Connection

Like most of my fellow actors in New York I was "between jobs" and making ends meet as a lunch waiter in a small high quality Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. I was a lousy waiter. I enjoyed the customers and didn't mind the work, but my A... Read more

Turn the Corner

When I was twenty, I won a statewide pageant. Along with the scholarship came the opportunity to be a guest in other pageants and parades, and also to compete for the national title. I felt so happy and blessed each time I read another news clippi... Read more

A 4-Wheel Drive Called Life

I had just graduated from medical school in India some 5 years ago. It was a time where (like all other classmates) I was standing at the crossroads of my career. Choosing a specialty for a physician is always a difficult decision. Alumni can p... Read more
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TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

Quotes
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Segoyewatha [Red Jacket] Native American Seneca Chief, Orator (1750-1830);
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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld Writer, Moralist (1613-1680);
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer Philosopher (1902-1983);
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist (1835-1910);
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Personal example carries more weight than preaching.
Chinese Proverb -
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TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

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Holding The Light

"Teach by Example" is a spot where a simple statement can be profound. Our hero thought that "all he did was hold the light," but now, looking back as an adult, he saw the wisdom his father was sha... Read More

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Anderson 11 months ago from Colatina, ES - Brasil
At home, television, school, street, church. Every day we deal with different people in all that influence and are influenced, we must appreciate what we see and not to be taken away by bad examples.
Brandon Ellis about 2 years ago from Kenai Alaska
Sometimes it is not that we go out of our way to teach somebody a good value but to just be there to lead them by being ourselves. Good habits as well as bad habits are enough to change someone’s life if we do our best to always be a good example then we should have nothing to worry about.
Ajay A. almost 3 years ago from IL
You bring a smile time I open your site. Thanks so much.