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

I don’t feel that I’m a role model. I’m just me. If people want to look up to me then that’s their business. I’m not perfect and I don’t consider myself to be a role model. But to be honest, I’d much rather my kids look up to me than look up to some rock star who gets off jail more times than is even funny.

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

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.

I don’t think you should do things in your personal life differently because you’re a role model.

If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That’s a great role model.

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don’t like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

I’m glad to be a role model, but beyond that I’m a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

I think it’s high time that we had a woman president. But I don’t want to elect someone just because she’s a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

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

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

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

It’s amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

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

I hope that I can be a role model and positive influence to anyone else who is struggling with insecurities within themselves.

I didn’t have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude… I didn’t have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.

The thing is, Steve’s a great role model, and he won’t sit there and tell you that.

I’ve been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I’ve tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they’ve done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can’t find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

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.

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 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.

I’m very fond of the British cinema. I’m a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he’s a great role model.

I’m not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn’t have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.