Bad Example Quotes

“I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I wanted to kind of make this like, 'Yeah, this is what Batman would be in the real world'. But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans, that smelling, not having a girlfriend—these are actually kind of heroic! So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example. But I have people come up to me in the street saying, "I am Rorschach! That is my story!' And I'll be thinking: 'Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me, never come anywhere near me again as long as I live'?”
― Alan Moore

“Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“I give away examples!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Profiting little by good examples, I make use of those that are ill, which are everywhere to be found: I endeavor to render myself as agreeable as I see others offensive; as constant as I see others fickle; as affable as I see others rough; as good as I see others evil: but I propose to myself impracticable measures.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our own bad behavior.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“No one is completely useless. You can always serve as a bad example.”
― Jim Beaver, Life's That Way

“People voice a lot of noble beliefs that unfortunately are drowned out by their actions.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“His tone had been regretfully similar to a man's he had never met, but who remained ingrained in him as an example of what to never become.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla