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

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.

Children need role models rather than critics.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can’t find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

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

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

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That’s what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I’m super competitive.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

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.

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.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don’t wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

It’s funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don’t feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who’s doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it’s more possible.

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

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up.

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.