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

In terms of pure acting, my role model has always been Philip Seymour Hoffman; I really always loved what he did. I love what Mark Ruffalo does. When I was younger, I liked Cate Blanchett a lot. These are all actors who are given stories and allowed to carry the whole story.

In politics, my role model would be a very weird one – our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn’t ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.

My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I’m a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world’s best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse’s aide with just a high school education.

I’m not a role model.

I’ll be a role model on my terms, but don’t make a role model on your terms.

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.’

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.

Growing up, there wasn’t an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn’t realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, ‘You know, our family is so proud of you, you’re really doing Hispanics proud.’

I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don’t know. I guess I’ve always keyed in on that perspective.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

It feels great to be a role model and I’m very careful with the things I do. I’m not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle.

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don’t expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you’re a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

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

I still do believe in carrying yourself a certain way, and I do my best to be somewhat of a role model. I’m not a perfect person. I’m a human being. I’m not the Lord, but I do accept that responsibility, and that’s why I do try to carry myself with confidence, with poise, with grace, and with class.

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

I don’t want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what’s on my mind.

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.

So when it comes to being a role model to women, I think it’s because of the way that I feel about myself, and the way that I treat myself. I am a woman, I treat myself with respect and I love myself, and I think that if I’m holding myself to a certain esteem and keeping it real with myself, then that’s going to translate to people like me.

I would never consider myself a role model in the wide sense of the word.

I don’t really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn’t do X or Y because they are role models.

If you say something that is a little unsafe to say but you feel strongly and passionate about it, a lot of people can attack you and call you a bad role model just because they don’t agree with your views, but in reality we’re all different and we’re all unique in our own way and we all have different thoughts.

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.

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing — the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they’ve done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America’s population, exports more than America does.