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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


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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

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.

— Joyce Maynard

Faith Hill is a big role model.

— Taylor Swift

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

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

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

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

— Mindy Kaling

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

— Jim Brown

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

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

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

— Doreen Virtue

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

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

I don’t want to be a bad role model.

— Kylie Jenner

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

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

— Sandhya Jane

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

— Gilda Radner

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

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

— Meryl Streep

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

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

— T. Harv Eker

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

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

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

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

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

— Rosa Parks

I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.’

— John Cena

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

— Luke Perry

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 equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be.

— Meryl Streep

Being a role model is a privilege.

— Allyson Felix

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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.

— Tim Tebow

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.

— Tiger Woods

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

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

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

— Gigi Hadid

…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

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

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

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

— Catherine Oxenberg

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

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

— Peggy Whitson

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

— Anonymous

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

— John Wooden
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