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

If your idea of a role model is somebody who’s gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I’m not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.

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.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it’s seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited, concerned with money and looks kind of thing that you’ll see in a lot of reality shows. And I think that’s really damaging, not just because it’s a terrible role model to put forth, but that it also puts across this idea to the American public that this is what young women are like, that this is what all young women in America are like.

Taylor Swift – I can’t say enough good things about her. I admire her so much as a person and as a role model for young women.

The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She’s strong, head of the household, the person everyone turns to, the one that can solve problems. She’s just so warm and caring, loving, but at the same time very strong and can do anything, in my eyes. A great role model and someone that I aspire to be like in life.

Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.

I believe that it is indeed easier for a woman who follows a male monarch, as it was in my case. There was no role model I had to measure up to. It was clear from the beginning that many things would be different, and that helped. And I hope that the same thing will help my son, Crown Prince Frederik, when he becomes king one day.

I don’t think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life… I’m not saying I’m a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn’t told what not to do all the time – my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn’t – I got to develop on my own. It’s part of your common sense.

My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I’m trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

I happen to be a movie star, but I’m not saying, ‘Hey, I’m a role model. Imitate me.’

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 wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they’d give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I’m going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It’s a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn’t really prepared to be one, but it’s always something that I’ve taken very seriously.

Although some people will say it’s a cliche, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn’t have a good role model to follow.

I don’t think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.

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.’

Jesus’ philosophy in life seemed to be, ‘Let’s confuse as many people for as long as we can’. He was an enigma. I felt I could have no better role model.

I’ll be a role model on my terms, but don’t make a role model on your terms.

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.

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn’t ask to be a role model, because I’m not perfect.

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.

I know that I’ll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.