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

As a modern-day role model, I’d have to go for Tiger Woods. I’m also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.

People should look up to me. Young kids. I am a good role model. I’ll show them how men should really be. And kids can take note from that. I am a good role model. Lots of kids look up to me.

I hear all the time from our audience about how it’s nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.

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.

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become–whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm–her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. 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.

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?

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.

My father… very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It’s something I hope that I’ve become a role model for my children.

It’s hard for me to believe sometimes that my three kids never met my dad. Because one of the things – one of the real blessings to me is that while my dad left this Earth when I was in my 20s, he’s just as much a part of, of my life now than he was then, in terms of I often think of my dad. I think of what my dad might do in a certain situation. And so he continues to be, you know, my hero, my role model.

I didn’t have a role model when I was younger.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model – because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else.

My mom is my role model. Charlie and I have two great sets of parents, but our moms are often the ones that go with us to competitions. My mom was with me in Sochi. I am so lucky to be a part of the Thank You Mom program partnered with Puffs and P&G.

I’m not a role model… Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.

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.

My first Asian role model was Michelle Kwan. Her beauty comes from within. She’s also really beautiful on the outside. But when I first saw her ice-skate, her performance was so moving and beautiful that she just glowed.

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother’s generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.

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.

It’s overwhelming … to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that’s a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I’ll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.

I’ve deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

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.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

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.

I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I’ve cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, ‘You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you.’

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.