Top 30 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

The greatest joy a parent can have and an affirmation of being an outstanding role model is when your child tells you she wants to be just like you. So be the most outstanding you because when you become a parent one day, your children will be proud to be just like you.

I have to tell you, I’m proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people’s lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone – including yourself – upward.

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

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

Being a role model…is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be.

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

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

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.

We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it.

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you.

I don’t have just one role model – rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.

Each person must live their life as a role model for others.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

I don’t think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

…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.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model – whether that’s as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers – it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Being a role model is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be.

A true leader must strive towards a grand vision of human progress, but remember that the minor details of her everyday life really matter to those who look up to her as a role model.

It’s sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child’s nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they’ve done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

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

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

Being a role model is a privilege.

I don’t think you should do things in your personal life differently because you’re a role model.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don’t think that’s fair.

It’s my responsibility to help others. To be a positive example. I want to be a role model for others, to help others like me get a chance.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it’s hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

Everyone should try to live their life like they’d like to be a role model.