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

Jesus, as a philosopher is wonderful. There’s no greater role model, in my view, than Jesus Christ. It’s just a shame that most of the people who follow him and call themselves Christians act nothing like him.

But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs – awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody’s gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

I don’t know if I ever really think about being a role model. But I guess if you’re in the public eye and people are looking at what you do, you do want to be a good role model, and you want to kind of be seen in a good light.

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

I’m not a role model.

I can remember back to when I was 12, 13, and any show that I watched, I wanted to be the main character and embody them, and I think the fact that Sabrina is, in so many ways, such a positive role model for young girls is really cool.

Being that I was raised in the Catholic faith, I am very careful about what I choose. I’ve turned down a lot of projects that… could have helped me a lot financially, and I’ve quit shows because of where they were going and because I feel like I have to be a role model for my kids.

I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn’t attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I’ve seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

I’ve been a role model in terms of discipline, and I have always been rigorous and professional.

I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

If I can be a role model, or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through rather than buy a player, that’s incredible.

Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don’t really talk candidly about what’s going on and the struggle – the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you’re supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

I’m still very much plugging away. But if I can build my career, I’ll do it like Eric Bana. He has a family; he has his roots. He still loves Melbourne. He’s a great role model to have.

I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they’re really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.

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.

The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.

I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn’t hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.

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.

I recognise my responsibility, and it’s funny when I read people who say they never asked to be a role model, and I understand that, but as soon as you have influence over people, you have a responsibility with what you do with that influence.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem–then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Ever since Pele’s extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.

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