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

It’s really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

I don’t know if I am a role model, but I’ve had young kids write to me. I try to write songs that I wish I would have heard when I was younger. It’s kind of strange to think of yourself as a role model. That wouldn’t be a bad job.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.

I want to be an example, the person who when they look at, they say, ‘That guy is a Christian, there’s no doubt about it.’ I want to be blameless. I want to be an encouragement. I want to be a role model for the believer.

I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more ‘feminine’ than female. Nor could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the feeling of farewell and longing for others.

I think it’s high time that we had a woman president. But I don’t want to elect someone just because she’s a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

I wanted to be like my mum: as strong as her. She was my role model.

I’ve become someone else, really, like a role model.

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don’t think that’s fair.

I’m aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn’t disregard that. It’s a privilege.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because I’m just learning like everybody else.

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

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.

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.

Beyonce is my role model. You know how people say, ‘What would Jesus do?’ I always say, ‘What would Beyonce do? In her career, what decisions would she make?’ And I really think it helps me guide my career and be really nice to every fan and every person that I work with.

It’s so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn’t happen that easily. It just doesn’t. And so I don’t act up in public and I don’t do anything weird – because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them.

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.

I’m not a role model… Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.

Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to ‘be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.’ And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

I think a role model is a person who says, ‘This is who I am.’

I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

I will follow my father’s footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.