Role Models Quotes – Some of the most inspiring Role Models quotations

There are many mediocre entertainers who don’t aspire to much more than fame and glory. It’s very easy to have them as your role models because there aren’t as many greats.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they’ve reached the roof.

People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I’m just happy to inspire growth and positivity.

I had the vision of creating my own camp to make sure I was teaching the campers what I wanted. Plus I picked other players that were good on the field and off so we could be great role models for these girls to look up to. I hope to inspire others and encourage them to go after their dreams.

I didn’t have any role models of artists that were in the same playing field as me – making expensive videos, travelling, marketing and promoting an album.

A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that’s overrated.

I don’t think that there are many, many strong, black male role models who provide a certain kind of really American, Southern-based comfort that Madea grows out of. She’s a signpost in our Obama world of traditional Christian values.

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I’ve had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me – and the wheel turns.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don’t deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a ‘man’ is based in their ability to be tough, dominant – and even violent when required.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

My peers are my role models, and my role models are my peers. Which is extraordinary.

I don’t care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don’t have anyone to look up to. I mean, it’s weird, but if I just hid out and didn’t let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?

I’ve done things that can be made fun of. It’s not such a bad thing. If I’m going to end up a role model, then I’d rather not end up being the kind of role model that pretends to be perfect, and pretends that she always has the right thing to say. I’m a product of role models that didn’t make me feel like I was as good as them.

I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

Pick your role models wisely.

… it’s good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

I don’t want to be anyone’s role model. My role models were assholes. My role models are dead. My role models never made it to 30, so I’m a bad person to ask for advice.

My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don’t value education.

When I was really young, the women’s national team wasn’t on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

That’s one of the things about getting older isn’t it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.