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

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.

Let’s face it: Most of us don’t realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it’s important that your kids see you reading. Not just books – reading the newspaper is good, too.

For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to say is ‘icon,’ ‘star,’ ‘hero,’ ones so possessed by an internal vision of divine goodness that they give us a glimpse of the face of God in the center of the human. They give us a taste of the possibilities of greatness in ourselves.

We are constantly consuming entertainment; we treat celebrities like role models and royalty. Sometimes destructive behavior gets ignored, or sometimes the pressure breaks them.

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble.

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

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

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

By saying that leaders – male or female – have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.

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.’

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.

It’s good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

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

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family’s influence and the family and the kids around me.

I don’t think anyone would say that the women on the United States national team are not great role models and ambassadors. Everywhere we go, we connect with fans, sign autographs, and represent our sport and federation with class.

My role models were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modeling was immediate, it was touchable. It was rare for me to idolize a movie star or a singer…because, truly, children connect with who is in their lives, present and accounted for.

I always get role models, people from real life who’ve lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We’re all role models more than athletes because athletes don’t wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don’t walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We’re closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.

Being surrounded by great women and amazing role models and good teammates allowed me to unfold and evolve into the person that I am today.

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.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman’s place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

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.