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

I don’t want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that they are by the same choreographer.

My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.

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

You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There’s a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn’t belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

I’ve changed for the better. I’m much more selfless and humble and you’re reminded about what life’s really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.

I wasn’t trying to be a role model for anybody. I don’t think that you can.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because I’m just learning like everybody else.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

Kids need role models, whether it’s baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it’s not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being – too perfect.

I always say as a celebrity you have two choices – you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.

I’m still very much plugging away. But if I can build my career, I’ll do it like Eric Bana. He has a family; he has his roots. He still loves Melbourne. He’s a great role model to have.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs – awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody’s gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

I hope my music inspires people and I want to be a good role model for everybody, not just the girls but for the guys too. I want to show everybody that I didn’t grow up in the spotlight like the Mickey Mouse Club to make it. That is important for kids to know.

You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.

The term role model is thrown around a lot, and I always tell people, your role models are hopefully parents and great influencers in your life. If I fall into that category, then I will embrace it for sure.

I don’t think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you’re not a human being anymore.

I don’t have a role model.

Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I’m representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name.

When you’re a musician and you go out onstage, and you’re someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

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.

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour’s – and Britain’s – first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.