Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Imitation Quotes
Oh imitators, you slavish herd.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
We are, in truth, more than half of what we are by imitation.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness.
Do not think of your faults, still less of others’ faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Man is an imitative animal.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
