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

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me – we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She’s been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.

I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s mortality says to us that here’s a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.

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.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless…. We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don’t have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There’s plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

I don’t mind that if I ever star in movies, they’ll likely be mine. That’s okay, because my great role models – Woody Allen, even Tyler Perry, who is actually one of my role models, even if that seems kind of strange – they do that themselves. And it’s great. They build empires, and they’re known as having their own voice. I think it’s 20 times more fun to act on a set where I feel the freedom to change the dialogue.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

I had a lot of great bosses – I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models.

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

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there’s someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

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

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.

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

Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, ‘I’m not the first one. I’m not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.’

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

My parents are good role models because they’ve worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

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

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions – who will sit down and share their concerns. They’re not just learning from me – they’re educating me. That’s what drives me.

I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that’s involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.

I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as ‘good’ Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.