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. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

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).

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

Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.

We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That’s a great role model.

Growing up, I didn’t have older sisters or many strong female role models to look up to. Being an adult now and looking back, I realize how much I wanted someone like that.

To change bad habits we must study the habits of successful role models.

When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.

It’s a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too – liberated and provocative.

My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez. When I see their work, I get engulfed in it. They really capture me.

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

I think it’s important to present role models for young women coming up. I really do believe you can’t be what you can’t see, and representation matters. So, for me, it’s the idea of putting women in media in ways that present them as having power, being heard, being true to themselves, and done from the perspective of women.

When I was writing ‘House Of Suns,’ there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.

Of course sportsmen and women are not only great role models, they are great fashion models too, as they are at the peak of physical perfection.

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

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.

All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn’t much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that world, being backstage at the theatre.

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

I believe that athletes – especially female athletes in the world’s leading sport for women – should serve as role models.

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I’m not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don’t have role models as woman for directors.

We all know we’re conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we’re doing is in line with them.

You don’t have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about – never actually met.