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

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.

It’s humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It’s very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can’t discredit that. I can’t say I don’t enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It’s very humbling.

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

Not every artist is a role model.

There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn’t a big enough role model for me. I couldn’t go around abolishing slavery.

I’m only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I’ve sort of experienced… my sister has always been my role-model because I’ve always seen her. She’s been acting my whole life and she’s grown up on film, so it’s neat for me to get to travel around and do interviews, because I’ve always seen her doing it.

I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people… When people see me, often all they see is another Australian athlete having a go. It isn’t until they see the full Cathy Freeman picture that they realise how proud I am of my ancestry and heritage. I’d like a little more tolerance and acceptance of my culture and all the differing cultures that make up Australia.

I don’t think Bill is a role model for anyone.

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.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.

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.

I’ve always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it’s hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

I have to tell you, I’m proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people’s lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

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.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

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.

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.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you’re automatically a role model … I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

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.

Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women’s Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it’s all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don’t ever look at gender as an issue and it’s about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.

Lupe Velez was way before me; Dolores Del Rio was way before me, so I had no one. So the only one I could think of that I identified with was this gorgeous creature named Elizabeth Taylor, so she became my role model.

I share my story to help other people. I know people need someone to be a role model and help them along the way.

Parents will often thank me for being a good role model for their kids or tell me, ‘You’ll never understand how much you mean to my daughter,’ so then I feel I don’t want to let down the parents, either.