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

Neymar is my only role model.

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.

Today I detach from other people’s dramas. I love them and pray for them. I am a role model of peace for them. But I no longer rescue them, or put my own needs last. It is my right to be happy and to help others as I feel lovingly guided instead from guilt or obligation. I respect my feelings and expect others to do so too. And so it is!

I know that I’m a role model for a lot of people, and I’d like to be. I know that there are people who probably don’t agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That’s OK.

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids – and to everyone, for that matter.

I think I’ve always wanted to be a role model, and I think … everyone should try to live their life like they’d like to be a role model. I think it’s like the thing keeping me out of jail.

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

If I were to tell you that I’m the one who does all the cooking, you’d interpret it as me trying to be some kind of role model. And if I were to say that my husband does all the cooking, you’d say: ‘Ah, so that’s how it is with family ministers.’

And I can’t tell you how many women from a certain age group – they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s – tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.

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.

I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I’m honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don’t think I’m a role model. I’m not someone to be imitated.

When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship – In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I’m a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that’s a perk.

A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I’d even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.

I’m a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I’m playing.

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it’s something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don’t sit at home and think about it too much, though – there’s plenty of other things in my life going on.

I like Barack Obama as a person and I think he is a sincere man. I think he and his wife conducted themselves magnificently in the White House. There’s not a better role model for American kids to watch Barack and Michelle Obama, so all of that is off-the-chart positive.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

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.

When a role model tells you it’s going to be OK, it’s going to be OK.

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

I’m still very much plugging away. But if I can build my career, I’ll do it like Eric Bana. He has a family; he has his roots. He still loves Melbourne. He’s a great role model to have.