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

My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.

I’ve changed for the better. I’m much more selfless and humble and you’re reminded about what lifes really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we’re trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it’s pretty helpful and beneficial when there’s a role model in the house.

Ronald Reagan was a great role model for Respublicans party, and I think for most people. But he was a fellow that the American public just intuitively loved so much, that he could always get credit.

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called ‘Seesaw.’ I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don’t set out to be one now. I won’t preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don’t know any better than the next person.

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

The term role model is thrown around a lot, and I always tell people, your role models are hopefully parents and great influencers in your life. If I fall into that category, then I will embrace it for sure.

Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone – including yourself – upward.

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.

To me, my Dad’s the greatest guy – next to Jesus Christ – who ever walked this planet. He’s been that outstanding male role model in my life. And he’s still the same guy I grew up around, very conscious of the image he sets forth. As he would say, ‘Wouldn’t do anything behind your back that I wouldn’t do to your face.’

Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don’t really talk candidly about what’s going on and the struggle – the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you’re supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it’s acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you’re in Hollywood.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I’m not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I’ve played put me in that position. I don’t feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

I don’t think of myself as a role model.

I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do and needed to get busy doing that work. I really do believe that I’m here for a bigger purpose, and I want to be a role model and speak for the black community and black women specifically. Humor was the way it felt most organic and effective for me.

I’m not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

It’s overwhelming … to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that’s a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I’ll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.

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.

Antoine ‘Fats’ Domino was a 1950s rock n’ roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation.

We never made attempts to say we were anybody’s role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.