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

I like being a role model – people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don’t see myself that way.

I would never think of myself as a role model.

Being a role model…is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be.

The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult’s influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, ‘Oh, I can become a doctor too.’

I think, for me, I’ve realized the responsibility of being a role model for young kids everywhere.

Obviously I’m not a role model for impressionable youth.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model – whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers – it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

All the haters are just jealous, so they’re trying to bring me down. I’m young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I’m a role model- I’m the American dream!

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.

I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It’s an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I’m also a teenager. I don’t get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

It’s hard to consider myself one when a lot of my fans and people who are calling me a role model are people my age and sometimes older than me. I feel like they’re at the same walk of life that I’m in right now, and they can probably teach me things about life, too.

I want to be the best role model I can be for my family.

I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I’m honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don’t think I’m a role model. I’m not someone to be imitated.

My wife may be the role model for our daughter in some ways, but I think I represent what she’ll put up with. You know, I think one day she’ll say, ‘OK my dad behaved this way, so if whoever I happen to fall in love with behaves this way it’s got to be OK because I love my dad.’

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.

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

I don’t seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don’t want to be anybody’s role model.

God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

I don’t think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: ‘Life should never be boring.’

LeBron is a role model in that sense. Because for him to be as good as he is and how high up he is on the totem pole, to still care about Akron, Ohio, that is tremendous and speaks volumes.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.