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

I always said that if I had the platform and the opportunity to share my story and make it easier for others, I would – so that, in a way, I can be the role model that I was looking for as a kid.

Beyonce is my role model. You know how people say, ‘What would Jesus do?’ I always say, ‘What would Beyonce do? In her career, what decisions would she make?’ And I really think it helps me guide my career and be really nice to every fan and every person that I work with.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That’d be cool. With everything he’s done and how professional he’s remained through it all, I think he’s an awesome role model as far as work ethic and tenacity. He just seems like he knows how to get it done.

We never made attempts to say we were anybody’s role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.

Working with Sofia Vergara and growing up with her was great because she was, you know, a really amazing, curvy role model for me. She helped me learn to accept the way I looked and love it and dress for it and feel good about myself.

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

What’s important about my election into the CEO role at Deloitte is to provide a role model for the next generation of diverse leaders at Deloitte.

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

If you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.

As a responsible citizen and a role model to a certain section of people, I need to use every available platform to reach out to the impressionable sections of our country.

I don’t think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I’d even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.

The coolest thing to me, and especially now that our program is PG-friendly, and we advertise that to the hilt, but fathers and mothers come up to me and tell me to keep doing what I’m doing because I’m a good role model for their kids.

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

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.

To me, being a role model is awesome. It’s a blessing.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

I look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There’s a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It’s a classic tale of good versus evil. To have a role model like Harry Potter that says you can defeat evil, but still be a complicated human being. That gives me a lot of hope.

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I’ve never felt like I’m a role model. I’m not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I’ll be dead so it won’t matter.

If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, ‘Blizzard of lies,’ in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared ‘Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady – a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation – is a congenital liar.’

I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won’t because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.

Who comes to your mind when you think of your role model in life?

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it’s hard, when you’re upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don’t want to and you’re nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it’s really important for kids to see how you handle that.