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

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

For me, Caitlyn Jenner is such a huge role model. She’s really making a difference in our society by just being brave and sharing her story. People say she’s not brave and courageous, but to me, she is so brave and courageous.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me – as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

To the extent that I can serve as a role model or mentor for other women in what might be traditionally viewed as a male-dominated field, I welcome that.

I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

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

I am super close with my brother. He is my ultimate role model. Growing up and having a family break apart, you know, when my parents divorced and things like that, it was a struggle, and all we had was each other at the time.

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.

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

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn’t be either.

I’m not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.

I think I’m a real good person off the field. I’ve got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I’m a really good role model.

I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I’m a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I’m willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.

When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them.

I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.

My dad was my role model; he always did the right thing.

I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it’s acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you’re in Hollywood.

When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship – In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

I don’t think there’s anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

Just because you’ve been successful and just because you’ve disrupted an environment, doesn’t mean you’re a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There’s an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.

But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing — the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they’ve done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America’s population, exports more than America does.

I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age. She hadn’t done much before starting her series, and I haven’t either.