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

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does – they are there to talk to and lead by example – would be my mom, but she wasn’t a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

I mean there’s still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

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 can’t be a role model. I just can’t be.

I enjoy being a role model for kids.

I’m not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

In terms of the characters, I definitely do look for somebody that I think people can learn from and I can learn from too. In one way or another, by the fact that they are a role or by that fact that they aren’t a role model. I feel like I was attracted to the past few characters that I’ve played, because they have an element that really touched my heart.

I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

I think it’s high time that we had a woman president. But I don’t want to elect someone just because she’s a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

I never have compared myself to Jessica Tandy in any way, and that’s such a great role model for me to look at. I’m seriously going to put pictures of her in my dressing room and commune with her from now on, I think.

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.

Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.

I would love to be a role model.

I’m not saying I’m the perfect role model. But I’m honest. Period.

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they’d give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

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!

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

I’m not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It’s me, and it’s important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn’t have a role model growing up.

There’s lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I’m grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he’s either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler… SpongeBob is bipolar.