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

Maybe I’ve had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It’s normal that I would strive to build my own career.

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don’t know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.

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.

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.

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.

I never really thought about the fact that there weren’t female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong.

I think role models exist, but they usually don’t get the light because people like scandal.

You know, I’ve never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I’d been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I’d be still waiting.

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of ‘Dawson’s Creek.’ I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, ‘Did I really have to do all that studying?’

We need to have our children look up to real role models.

In a fast changing world, choosing a role model becomes exceedingly tough. An easier option could be to chose anti-role-models. . . people you would not like to be, or things you would not like to do!

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

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it’s really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don’t see.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I’ve managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

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?

Pick your role models wisely.

Thinking back on it, I just really didn’t have very many role models to look up to when it came to Asian actresses. And in that way, when I would see an Asian onscreen, it would be a secondary-type thing, and that’s kind of how I ended up viewing myself in the world: as secondary.

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There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we’re relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now the majority of college graduates, we have role models like Hillary Clinton to look up to – it seems like the world is completely open to us and we can accomplish anything. I think feminists are often disdained today because we’re seen as complaining about a problem people think no longer exists. I also think young women shy away from calling themselves feminists because many haven’t been educated about it or exposed to it. They don’t know enough about it to identify with it.

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity – important to a continuing sense of ontological security – that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (…) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?