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

In India, it’s hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything – including power and money – and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He’s a role model of selflessness.

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

I share my story to help other people. I know people need someone to be a role model and help them along the way.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world… Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d’Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He’s in a different league.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Be a role model just because you can and because you care.

No matter what role I play, I have a certain image to maintain. I believe I’m a role model and I take my parts accordingly.

Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don’t really talk candidly about what’s going on and the struggle – the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you’re supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

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

I always say, ‘First complete your education, be what you want to be in life, get a position, start earning. Then, when you are financially stable, everything will be stable in your life.’ I have become like a role model, and people feel that I must have had a really cool life, my parents accepting me, like a Cinderella story. It’s not like a Cinderella story for me. I had to be my own fairy godmother and create myself. I took decisions and I lived with those decisions, and I did everything for my own dignity.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

It’s really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don’t set out to be one now. I won’t preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don’t know any better than the next person.

If I can’t serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

It is so key to me to be a good role model for young girls and someone their mom would want them to look up to.

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

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

My mom was the only one who didn’t bleach her skin. She was the one who kept her natural complexion. So yes, I consider her a role model. All of her other family members would say to us, ‘Oh, your mom is so beautiful. She’s lucky she kept her skin.’ Those comments stayed with me.

It’s weird to hear anyone call me a role model.

[Being role model ]is good for me mentally, selfishly, and it’s also nice to try to do that for, especially, younger women. I mean, it’s scary as hell. … I worry about it, but I think it’s a good thing to try to do.

I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can’t be what you can’t see.

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.

I’m happy people look at me as a role model.