What you have accomplished in the past is a much stronger example than talking about what you are capable of doing in the future. Actions do speak louder than words!
from How Valuable Are You
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
Example is the best precept.
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Example has more followers than reason.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
George F. Will
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
You must inspire people to give it all they have by using yourself as an example.
Byron and Catherine Pulsifer, more Common Traits of a Coach
There are numerous examples of people throughout the world who have overcome handicaps to achieve great success.
Dare 2 B U
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
"A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice."
Author Unknown, from The Road To Success is Always Under Construction
"A good example is the best sermon."