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

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.

Wonder Woman is out there very much defending the right and being strong and being a positive role model.

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.

Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.

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

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I’ve always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody – whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don’t want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I’m still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, yes, someone like me can do this.

If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that’s the most secure path you can take – a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.

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.’

If I were to think of myself as a role model, I would say that it’s really important to realize when you are a role model and to be willing to give advice, share how you do things.

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I’ve been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

My heritage is really important to me. I’ve always had that olive complexion and the squished nose, and I just think it’s important to do the best I can to be a good role model.

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.

I will follow my father’s footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don’t because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don’t wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that’s when your spark is lost.

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.

When it comes to role models, as a person of faith, I think we all have one perfect role model. And when I’m asked that question, I point to God and to my faith. And that’s where I tell my kids to look.