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

Parents must lead by example. Don’t use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children’s first and most important role models.

I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court – like my older sister, who’s a lawyer. I don’t like writing papers, but she’s helped me a lot. It’s nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.

The landscape in academic science is traditionally male-dominated. Women didn’t always see themselves there – there was a lack of role models, a lack of champions. It really helped when the Prime Minister appointed a gender-balanced cabinet. That was well-received and people realized that, if the Prime Minister could do it, why can’t there be equity other places?

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

One of the great things about rap music… it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I’m concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they’re in.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.

I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We’re role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we’ve got to set a good example.

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

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models – most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.

I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

I had no role models from my own community – there was no such thing. Earlier on, there were people like Dolores Del Rio, but I was too young for that – that was before me. There was really nobody out there.

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy’s character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys’ characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.

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.

The term role model is thrown around a lot, and I always tell people, your role models are hopefully parents and great influencers in your life. If I fall into that category, then I will embrace it for sure.

Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don’t have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it’s a self-perpetuating loop.

People will say, ‘Who are your role models, and who are your pioneers?’ And the first person that comes to my mind is Billie Jean King because we didn’t have women that we could watch when I was growing up.

I don’t want to have to think about what is right; I want to live right. And what that means to me is going to be different to some of my fans, some of their parents, and some other role models.

All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.