Top 25 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

I think it’s important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I’m proud to be a role model!

I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.’

But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, yes, someone like me can do this.

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I’m preaching, I’m practicing.

I think a role model is a person who says, ‘This is who I am.’

Be a role model just because you can and because you care.

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that’s who we are as real people.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don’t really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs – awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody’s gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

Everyone knows someone struggling in some kind of way. You are a role model to so many people, even if you don’t realize it. Take someone under your wing. Show them the right way to do things.

When you see a role model, what you see is a person who has the courage to be who you wish you could be. Stop wishing and just be.

The best thing I could do is build a successful company and continue to innovate and be in the right role I want to be in. If I’m not doing that, I’m inauthentic. That’s not a good role model to anyone. That, to me, is the most important thing.

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!

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are — cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

Who comes to your mind when you think of your role model in life?

It’s a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn’t qualify as a role model. It’s just sad.

I don’t hold myself out as a role model. I don’t believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.