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

During the second term of the Clinton presidency… I thought, ‘Here is the literal and figurative role model for the United States of America behaving like a perverted little kid.’ I just found it all really unmanly and undignified.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don’t. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem–then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

I don’t know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

I’m a role model as a footballer and not as a politician. I want to see myself as a footballer. People respect me for my performances. That’s why they support me, and I’m very thankful for that. But I’m not a politician.

I don’t want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what’s on my mind.

Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

I look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There’s a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It’s a classic tale of good versus evil. To have a role model like Harry Potter that says you can defeat evil, but still be a complicated human being. That gives me a lot of hope.

It’s very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

I’m not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It’s me, and it’s important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn’t have a role model growing up.

I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.

Dad thanks for leaning in by helping me become a role model for young girls.

I’ve been a role model in terms of discipline, and I have always been rigorous and professional.

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.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we’re trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it’s pretty helpful and beneficial when there’s a role model in the house.

I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn’t attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

Parents will often thank me for being a good role model for their kids or tell me, ‘You’ll never understand how much you mean to my daughter,’ so then I feel I don’t want to let down the parents, either.

George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that they are by the same choreographer.

The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev’s Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother’s calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.