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

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

Role model, as far as my kids, I try to be more like a superhero than a role model ’cause I don’t want them to go through what I went through, like, growing up and stuff.

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.

For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.

It is so key to me to be a good role model for young girls and someone their mom would want them to look up to.

Let’s make our role model famous, instead of making famous people our role model…

I can remember back to when I was 12, 13, and any show that I watched, I wanted to be the main character and embody them, and I think the fact that Sabrina is, in so many ways, such a positive role model for young girls is really cool.

I’m not a role model… Just because I dunk a basketball doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Most of us are never educated about feelings. Instead, we’re expected to learn socially acceptable ways to deal with feelings by watching the people around us. But the truth is, many people don’t role model healthy ways to deal with feelings.

I’m not a role model. I’m an aberation. A statistical anomaly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.

I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized — it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

Galley Molina’s a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

I’ve long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it’s principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here.

The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other services, from building materials and green construction standards to farm produce.

I don’t apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

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.

It’s important that I’m a role model and that the companies that I associate myself with feel the same way about their own images. Those are companies I’d like to be associated with.

It’s so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn’t happen that easily. It just doesn’t. And so I don’t act up in public and I don’t do anything weird – because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.