Best example & doors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice”

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Book:The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and His Journey Through Germany and Italy ; Together with a Comprehensive Life and Side and Foot Notes from All the Commentators, Fully Explanatory of the Text ; Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc., Etc

Source: The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and His Journey Through Germany and Italy ; Together with a Comprehensive Life and Side and Foot Notes from All the Commentators, Fully Explanatory of the Text ; Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc., Etc

“I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.”

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Author:Sara McMann

“Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents".”

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Book:Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers

Source: Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers

“We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.”

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Author:David McCullough

“In any relationship there are certain doors that should never be opened. The bathroom door, for example.”

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