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

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

I’m not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

Be a role model not a critic. Don’t tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do – show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I’m their role model, so I have to make sure I’m always being professional and not putting any swear words out there – just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids – and to everyone, for that matter.

Obviously I’m not a role model for impressionable youth.

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.

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you’re not a human being anymore.

For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.

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.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

I feel like I’m held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I’m a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, ‘Hey, it’s OK to starve yourself’ or ‘It’s OK to throw up after your meals’ – that’s not OK.

I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age. She hadn’t done much before starting her series, and I haven’t either.

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 never wanted to model myself on a female singer, which tells you a lot about my character. I didn’t have a female role model. There just wasn’t anybody around. I played with the boys and beat them at their own game.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

For me, Caitlyn Jenner is such a huge role model. She’s really making a difference in our society by just being brave and sharing her story. People say she’s not brave and courageous, but to me, she is so brave and courageous.

I have a responsibility as a potential role model that I take very seriously.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model – whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers – it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies – whoever it is – very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I’m in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.

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

Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word ‘role’ in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything I’m into, it’s real to me. There’s nothing fake about it.

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.’