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

I never thought I’d be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.

It feels good to be a role model for little girls who don’t often see natural hair on the red carpet.

I like the idea of being a role model. It’s an honor.

I don’t think of myself as a role model.

I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model – because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else.

The older I get, the more I realize I’m becoming people’s role models and that’s freaky to me. That’s not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old’s role model.

I don’t think being a musician makes me a role model at all. But I do believe that I have responsibility to offer people a helping hand when and if I can, just the same way that others have helped me. I think that it’s important to keep that cycle going, and to give back to whatever your personal definition of community is.

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

Not everyone’s role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.

It’s amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

It’s funny – more people talk about my ‘babe-dom’ now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I’m a role model in hot pants now. That’s cool!

I don’t hold myself out as a role model. I don’t believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

My mom was the only one who didn’t bleach her skin. She was the one who kept her natural complexion. So yes, I consider her a role model. All of her other family members would say to us, ‘Oh, your mom is so beautiful. She’s lucky she kept her skin.’ Those comments stayed with me.

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.

Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

In the music world, when we’re making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else – sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

I don’t have an inspiration, I don’t have a role model. I like to meet different people and gain something from their experiences and their lives. I take inspiration and worth through what they’ve gone through. I don’t have one person I look up to always, apart from the person that I am, if that makes sense. I just look up to the person that I was yesterday and I just try to better myself whichever way I can.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

I know that people look at my life and ask, “How can I achieve some of those things?” So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I’m a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.

My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

I had my serious side – I idolized Bobby Kennedy; he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis.

I know I touch a lot of people. I don’t call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders.