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

I know I touch a lot of people. I don’t call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders.

I’ve changed for the better. I’m much more selfless and humble and you’re reminded about what life’s really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.

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

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them.

I take being a role model seriously.

Once you turn pro and you’re making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

I wanted to be like my mum: as strong as her. She was my role model.

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.

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

God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I’m not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.

I’m not a role model.

If I were to tell you that I’m the one who does all the cooking, you’d interpret it as me trying to be some kind of role model. And if I were to say that my husband does all the cooking, you’d say: ‘Ah, so that’s how it is with family ministers.’

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He’s a role model – because he’s a local guy who got out.

I don’t hold myself out as a role model. I don’t believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It’s one of a parent’s greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

I’d have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I’m a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world’s best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse’s aide with just a high school education.

I know I’m never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that’s just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.

When it comes to role models, as a person of faith, I think we all have one perfect role model. And when I’m asked that question, I point to God and to my faith. And that’s where I tell my kids to look.

The greatest joy a parent can have and an affirmation of being an outstanding role model is when your child tells you she wants to be just like you. So be the most outstanding you because when you become a parent one day, your children will be proud to be just like you.

I think some people really change when they become a dad. Like, I’ve changed in different ways. I – but, like, my comedy hasn’t changed. And I’ve also seen people do that where you become this – you become a dad, and then all of a sudden, you’re trying to be a role model.