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

I’ve done things that can be made fun of. It’s not such a bad thing. If I’m going to end up a role model, then I’d rather not end up being the kind of role model that pretends to be perfect, and pretends that she always has the right thing to say. I’m a product of role models that didn’t make me feel like I was as good as them.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models.

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation’s leading role models.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a ‘man’ is based in their ability to be tough, dominant – and even violent when required.

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.

Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.

I don’t want to be anyone’s role model. My role models were assholes. My role models are dead. My role models never made it to 30, so I’m a bad person to ask for advice.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

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

Growing up I didn’t have curvy role models, mainly because I didn’t see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.

Girls Who Code is all about providing role models. You can’t be what you can’t see.

I don’t have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don’t even know who the people are. I think that’s good, because then you don’t have preconceived ideas about them.

Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of role models – Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don’t have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

… it’s good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence.

The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy’s character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys’ characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.

I never really had role models or guys in the NBA to show me the ropes or be a friend, mentor to me like that.

There’s a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there.

The American people don’t believe politicians. They don’t believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don’t believe the news media.

People need role models. Are you up to the job?

Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.