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

Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. The moment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody’s motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

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.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I’m destined to fail.

When you’re in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that’s the way they’re supposed to act. And girls think that’s an accepted way men will treat them.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour’s – and Britain’s – first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

That’s so important for children when they’re growing up, to have a strong male role model.

I aspire to be a role model for women to pursue their dreams no matter what odds are stacked against them.

My role model didn’t tell me, he showed me.

Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

It’s important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

If I’ve inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it’s really backfired very badly on me.

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 also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She’s an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don’t take that lightly; it’s a big responsibility.

There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.

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

I can’t let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.

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

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 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.

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

I’m all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.

I don’t think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: ‘Life should never be boring.’