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

May 8, 2019 By Neil Ball


 Top ​​40 Role Model Quotes


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

— Anonymous

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

— Winnie Harlow

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.

— BANKS

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that’s who we are as real people.

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

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

— Doreen Virtue

If I can’t serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

— Mason Cooley

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!

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Pilou Asbaek

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Rosa Parks

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.

— John G. Miller

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

— Gigi Hadid

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

— Rob Lowe

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.

— Chip Conley

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.

— Rob Jeter

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.

— Brendon Burchard

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.

— Magic Johnson

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

— Peggy Whitson

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

— Barry Bonds

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

— Jim Brown

…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.

— Sonia Sotomayor

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.

— Anonymous

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

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.

— Jennifer Lopez

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.

— Christian Louboutin

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.

— Sonia Sotormayor

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.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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

— Wayne Rooney

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.

— Michael Oher

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.

— Kevin Johnson

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.

— Julia Hartz

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Denzel Washington

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

— John Wooden

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.

— Caroline Wozniacki

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.

— Payal Kadakia

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.

— P. J. O’Rourke

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.

— Joe Lonsdale

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.

— Harnaam Kaur

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

— Rush Limbaugh
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