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

Once you turn pro and you’re making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

I didn’t ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, ‘I’ve got to live my life.’ There’s nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody – everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you’re with. But these aren’t things you can let consume your life.

In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, ‘Blizzard of lies,’ in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared ‘Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady – a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation – is a congenital liar.’

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

Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.

Since I’m not a fashion model, there’s a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don’t regard myself as an ugly person, but I don’t think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I’m somebody who might be, I’d like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

You just have to know that there’s people watching you, and you’ve got to be a positive role model and not put yourself in bad situations.

I understand that I’m a role model.

I don’t know if I’m necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist – Latin or otherwise – to do this thing for a living.

Hopefully I’m a role model for positive change for everyone – not just women. It’s very important to find balance between men and women.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I aspire to be a role model for women to pursue their dreams no matter what odds are stacked against them.

I’m very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don’t consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.

When men come home, it is more about being part of the family, being with the children, spending more time with the children, being a strong role model. But I think going as far as cooking and putting the apron on, that takes away the masculinity, and I would miss that.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

I don’t think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

What we’d consider a positive role model, I think it’s impossible to actually be a role model. You’ll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that’s just something that you’re being conscious of, and you make the decision, ‘I want to say positive things.’

I think it’s a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone’s an entertainer, they’re automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren’t there to teach your children the lessons that you haven’t bothered to teach them at home yourself. They’re just doing their own version of entertaining.

I certainly think Halle Berry’s a wonderful role model. She’s a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.

In the music world, when we’re making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else – sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

My mom was the only one who didn’t bleach her skin. She was the one who kept her natural complexion. So yes, I consider her a role model. All of her other family members would say to us, ‘Oh, your mom is so beautiful. She’s lucky she kept her skin.’ Those comments stayed with me.

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.

I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It’s something you have to do on your own.

I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I’m somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don’t know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I’ll keep trying to do that for them.