Top 20 Role Models Quotes – Some of the most inspiring Role Models quotations

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

Pick your role models wisely.

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there’s someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

In a fast changing world, choosing a role model becomes exceedingly tough. An easier option could be to chose anti-role-models. . . people you would not like to be, or things you would not like to do!

I think role models exist, but they usually don’t get the light because people like scandal.

I’ve never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I’ve done business with more of them and they’re leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

Let’s face it: Most of us don’t realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it’s important that your kids see you reading. Not just books – reading the newspaper is good, too.

I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn’t feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

Children need role models rather than critics.

Companies and leaders are role models – not just with the business community – but in the broader world.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Role models really matter. It’s hard to imagine yourself as something you don’t see.

We need good role models, and they have to start at the top.

I don’t believe athletes should be role models. . . . We’re a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models. . . . I think one of the problems in society today is that we don’t stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.

My role models have kept on changing.

I think role models also start in the home with your parents.