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

My role model didn’t tell me, he showed me.

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

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

You should be careful what you choose to see as a role model, whereas inspiration can come from anywhere.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 don’t want to be a bad role model.

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.

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

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!

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

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

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

…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 thats 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 the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

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.’

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.

By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.

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.

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

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

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.

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