A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.
You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives. . . You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.
Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m. p. h. I can say that unequivocally.
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.
A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.
Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence
