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

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I’ve seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I’d ever imagine myself dressing. I understand that I’m a role model, though, and I have to look out for that. I have a 10-year-old sister, too. But you also want to be appealing to guys and stuff, that’s just something girls feel. It’s hard. You want to be that girl that’s unattainable to all the guys because there are so many other girls out there that are like that.

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

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, ‘What does that mean?’ But I feel aware of it when I’m reading scripts.

I take it seriously that it’s a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It’s not something I take lightly.

My father wasn’t the best role model to me.

People should look up to me. Young kids. I am a good role model. I’ll show them how men should really be. And kids can take note from that. I am a good role model. Lots of kids look up to me.

I’m not preaching about things you should do, I’m not political or anything. I’m probably not the best role model.

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

I’m aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn’t disregard that.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

I’ve been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I’ve tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

I have learned from my own pain is that God’s plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It’s about choosing peace instead of pain – this is the bottom line.

A lot of times, professional athletes say, ‘I’m not a role model; I’m an athlete.’ I don’t mind being a role model because I know what I’ve done in order to make it to where I am right now. It’s a lot of hard work; it’s a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it’s going to take time.

When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she’s in the entertainment world. She’s done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter’s primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos.

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

I get letters and messages on Twitter saying I’ve become a bit of a role model, which is wonderful.

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

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

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

I think it’s flattering when people say I’m a role model, but I don’t think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word ‘role model.’ I’m not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

I don’t apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

Honestly, I didn’t know I was a role model.

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.