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Top 50 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

May 8, 2019 By Neil Ball


 Top ​50 Role Model Quotes


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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

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

— Denzel Washington

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

— Wayne Rooney

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

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

— Luke Perry

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

— Doreen Virtue

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

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

— Barry Bonds

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

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!

— Sandeep Sahajpal

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.

— Luke Wood

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

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Sandhya Jane

I don’t hold myself out as a role model. I don’t believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

— Sheryl Sandberg

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

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

— Kelly Clarkson

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Mindy Kaling

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

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

Being a role model is a privilege.

— Allyson Felix

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

— Eric Allenbaugh

Be a role model just because you can and because you care.

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— John Wooden

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

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.

— Maya Angelou

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

— Haile Gebrselassie

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

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

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

— Rosa Parks

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.

— John Wooden

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

— Shannen Doherty

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!

— Sally Ride

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

— Idina Menzel

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.

— Dakota Fanning

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

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

— Winnie Harlow

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

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

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.

— Tony Robbins

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

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.

— Eric Allenbaugh

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

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

— Catherine Oxenberg

I don’t want to be a bad role model.

— Kylie Jenner

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

— Gigi Hadid

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

— Mason Cooley
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