Top 40 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

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.

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.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.

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.

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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 person who says, ‘This is who I am.’

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

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.

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.

…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.

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.

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Being a role model is a privilege.

I don’t want to be a bad role model.

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

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

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

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they’re really inspiring because they seem wise; they’ve gone through things.

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.

Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.