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

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I’d choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me – as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

Let’s make our role model famous, instead of making famous people our role model…

Dad thanks for leaning in by helping me become a role model for young girls.

When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she’s just the best.

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

For me, my goal is to be able to impact as many people as possible for something good, for something right; to be able to leave a legacy of something bigger than myself – not for winning games, not for scoring touchdowns, but that Jesus Christ has changed my life. You can love God, and you can love people. There’s more to this world than money, fame, and power. You can have an impact, no matter who you are; no matter what platform. No matter how big or small of a role model, there’s someone watching you. There’s a life that you can change. There’s a life that you can impact.

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

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

Being a working mommy is something I’ve always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

I never thought that I’d be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

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 want to be a role model.

When I’m out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat’s meow.

Sachin is the greatest role model I’ve ever met.

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.

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.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.

Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I’m grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.

I don’t know if I am a role model, but I’ve had young kids write to me. I try to write songs that I wish I would have heard when I was younger. It’s kind of strange to think of yourself as a role model. That wouldn’t be a bad job.

When ‘Joy Luck Club’ came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I’m much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.