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

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.

I’m very conscious about the way I treat people because I was never really taught to treat people in a respectful or kind way. I never really saw that role model, so for me, that made me just want to be the opposite of what I had and treat people the opposite of the way I saw other people treat other people.

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.

Galley Molina’s a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I’m representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody – whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

I’m not really a role model; just don’t do what I do.

I think I’m a real good person off the field. I’ve got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I’m a really good role model.

I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don’t think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don’t even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

It’s really neat when you become a role model. It’s also a lot of responsibility. But if you see it as a platform where you can pour into others for Jesus with love, that’s where I want to be. Becoming known or noticed in my sport isn’t what drives me to work hard and want to be the best I can be. It’s Jesus. That’s why I play. I play to glorify Him. I worship Him with the gifts I’ve been given.

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

I have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that’s great. The body of work I’ve done has afforded me that opportunity.

I wasn’t trying to be a role model with ‘The Dutchess,’ but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her life. And I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet her and talk to her a lot about what motivates her and what drives her. And that, to me, is a person that really is an extraordinary role model.

I’m happy to inspire your seven-year-old child, but I do not want to be her role model.

I wasn’t trying to be a role model for anybody. I don’t think that you can.

People say to me that I’m a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I’m not a technologist, I’m a journalist – that’s my background.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

I am super close with my brother. He is my ultimate role model. Growing up and having a family break apart, you know, when my parents divorced and things like that, it was a struggle, and all we had was each other at the time.

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That’s a great role model.

I don’t apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship. . . In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

Just because you’ve been successful and just because you’ve disrupted an environment, doesn’t mean you’re a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There’s an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.

In India, it’s hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything – including power and money – and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He’s a role model of selflessness.