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

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

Kids need role models, whether it’s baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it’s not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being – too perfect.

One thing, parents: you need to realize is you’ve got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You’re the parent. Why don’t you monitor what your child wears? Ariana Grande didn’t sign on to be a role model.

Giving teenagers some inspiration, a single role model and an opportunity to be part of something bigger at a critical point in their lives can be the difference between being a productive or being a destructive member of society.

If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both fucked.

They need a role model. They need a star!

The best thing I could do is build a successful company and continue to innovate and be in the right role I want to be in. If I’m not doing that, I’m inauthentic. That’s not a good role model to anyone. That, to me, is the most important thing.

Hopefully, I can be a good role model for kids, and they can grow up to follow their dreams just like I am.

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.

…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.

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.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don’t have that role model to teach you how to do things.

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.

That’s so important for children when they’re growing up, to have a strong male role model.

Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl’s life. Use that power.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you’re automatically a role model … I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

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.

My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

My role model didn’t tell me, he showed me.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.

I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.

The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She’s strong, head of the household, the person everyone turns to, the one that can solve problems. She’s just so warm and caring, loving, but at the same time very strong and can do anything, in my eyes. A great role model and someone that I aspire to be like in life.

Antoine ‘Fats’ Domino was a 1950s rock n’ roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation.

I just feel like I have a chance to be a role model now.