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

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!

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

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

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 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 that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 the most powerful form of educating.

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

Being a role model is a privilege.

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.