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

You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

I found through my fan mail that women… really wanted a role model.

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

My mother was a role model.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, ‘What does that mean?’ But I feel aware of it when I’m reading scripts.

I don’t think there’s anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

What I would love, instead of being a role model, is being someone of inspiration.

My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

I didn’t have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude… I didn’t have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.

I never thought I’d be a role model this early. It caught me off-guard, but it says a lot about how I was brought up, what my values have been, and how my parents raised me. It’s very flattering that being myself is enough to be a role model.

I don’t think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

I think it’s flattering when people say I’m a role model, but I don’t think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word ‘role model.’ I’m not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

I don’t want my dad to say, ‘My daughter is an actress on a TV show.’ I want him to say, ‘My daughter cares about people.’ I would love to know that I’m a role model in Hollywood.

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.

I understand that I’m a role model.

I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

I looked at Willie Nelson and Farm Aid as a role model; they do it every year, and it draws people together, and drawing people together where they realize they’re not alone, to me, is strategic in healing.

I don’t think you have to be perfect to be a 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.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

I didn’t ask to be a role model. I don’t like that responsibility. But if you see something in me that you really adore, thank you.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don’t have that role model to teach you how to do things.

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

For me as an individual, it’s important that I have a career as a role model for my children, that I earn my own money, and I spend it prudently and imprudently.