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

I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I’m not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They’re the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Adrian Smith. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress – stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

‘A New Model’ is saying that women should be confident in who they are and that they can be their own role models.

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

We [Notekillers] aren’t necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that’s cool.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of role models – Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.

Companies and leaders are role models – not just with the business community – but in the broader world.

Not all of us are born with the same role models and grasp things the same way.

I definitely have role models. But it’s hard to say, ‘Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie,’ or ‘I want to be Charlize Theron.

I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That’s what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I’m super competitive.

I discovered … that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn’t have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I’m not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

I want to get young girls excited in science, tech, engineering mathematics, art, design – and how they come together. We’ve got this Choose Science campaign. Once women are there, though, we have to retain them. When I look at universities, it’s not enough to have role models, we need to have champions. We need to have more women in senior leadership positions. There are issues about work-life balance. Women go to have children and then who keeps the lab running? There are many challenges.

From the time we’re born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

Don’t believe in role models, but if I do, then I’m mine.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

People need role models. Are you up to the job?