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

I don’t think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

I’m the second oldest of eight kids. I’d have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to. Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it’s not always something today’s youth should mimic. I understand that with great influence comes great responsibility.

I can’t be a role model. I just can’t be.

I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can’t be what you can’t see.

I happen to be a movie star, but I’m not saying, ‘Hey, I’m a role model. Imitate me.’

My idol was Terry Bradshaw, but my role model was my father because I saw how much he worked and how much he focused on his trade. I was brought up the right way.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

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.

I hope to be a good role model for my daughters.

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

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

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

I talk about role models a lot and wanting to be a role model for kids around me because I didn’t have that growing up.

First there’s my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that’s a position that I take seriously. That’s the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.

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.

I think it’s a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone’s an entertainer, they’re automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren’t there to teach your children the lessons that you haven’t bothered to teach them at home yourself. They’re just doing their own version of entertaining.

I never feel pressure to be a good role model. I always try to do my best to inspire people to be good and do the right thing, but I just can’t live my life always trying to be a good role model.

It’s important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

Jesus’ philosophy in life seemed to be, ‘Let’s confuse as many people for as long as we can’. He was an enigma. I felt I could have no better role model.

I’ve tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I’ve cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, ‘You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you.’

Lupe Velez was way before me; Dolores Del Rio was way before me, so I had no one. So the only one I could think of that I identified with was this gorgeous creature named Elizabeth Taylor, so she became my role model.

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.

Magic Johnson is my biggest role model and I am his biggest fan. I actually met him recently and ran up to him and said, ‘man, I am your biggest fan, I’m P.K. Subban,’ and he said ‘I know who you are,’ and I was like, ‘what!’ I was blown away just standing there talking to him and he was so nice.

Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women’s Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it’s all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don’t ever look at gender as an issue and it’s about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.