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

I think, for me, I’ve realized the responsibility of being a role model for young kids everywhere.

My father… very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It’s something I hope that I’ve become a role model for my children.

A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just leads me to do what I feel is right and to conduct myself with the moral standards, principles, and integrity that were instilled in me by my family.

I’m not a role model. I’m an aberation. A statistical anomaly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.

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.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

It’s important that I’m a role model and that the companies that I associate myself with feel the same way about their own images. Those are companies I’d like to be associated with.

It’s overwhelming … to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that’s a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I’ll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.

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.

For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he’d really like to be able to put his son to bed.

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.

Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I can see that I can be a role model.

When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she’s just the best.

I stay away from the title of ‘role model.’ I want to be a more realistic role model – not a perfect Barbie role model.

Each person must live their life as a role model for others.

Some days I feel more comfortable using sexuality in my work, and then some days I feel like being a little more reserved. I think that’s why I’m in the middle of this whole conversation of, what is she? Is she a good girl or is she a bad girl? I think that I’m both. I don’t need to be either. I don’t need to be a pop princess who is America’s sweetheart or the next rebellious, wild, young thing. I don’t need to pick or choose. I can show skin and swear like a sailor but also be a good role model. I think that I’m a good person. I don’t think cursing makes you a bad person. I don’t think showing skin or kissing boys makes you a bad person. I don’t think that expressing sexuality makes you a bad person at all. I don’t think that’s bad. . . I think it’s great!

To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

I think having a strong female figure in my mom as an in-house role model was huge and really motivated me to continue to pursue my passion and my dreams.

I don’t have a role model.

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called ‘Seesaw.’ I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.

My dad was my role model; he always did the right thing.

Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.

I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.