Role Models

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ROLE MODELS: Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. (Bernard Malamud, U.S. novelist. short story writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, 1914-1986)

ROLE MODELS: If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. (Catherine Aird, English novelist and short story writer, Born 1930)

ROLE MODELS: Children have more need of models than of critics. (Carolyn Coats, U.S. actress in children's theater, 1927-2005)

ROLE MODELS: Example has more followers than reason. (Christian Bovee, U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

ROLE MODELS: One filled with joy preaches without preaching. (Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

ROLE MODELS: Imitation is a necessity of human nature. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)

ROLE MODELS: From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. (Publilus Syrus, Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 1st Century B.C.E.)