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

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

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

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

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

I don’t want to be a bad role model.

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 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.

It’s amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t have an inspiration, I don’t have a role model. I like to meet different people and gain something from their experiences and their lives. I take inspiration and worth through what they’ve gone through. I don’t have one person I look up to always, apart from the person that I am, if that makes sense. I just look up to the person that I was yesterday and I just try to better myself whichever way I can.

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

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.

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

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become–whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm–her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. 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 dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.

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

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

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

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

God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.

Let’s make our role model famous, instead of making famous people our role model…

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.

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.

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

…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.