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

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

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.

I copied John Lennon; I copied a bit of David Bowie. It’s such a shame, and I’m so glad that now young girls have so many different role models in all different walks of life.

I never really had role models or guys in the NBA to show me the ropes or be a friend, mentor to me like that.

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation’s leading role models.

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

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.

It is draining when you have a child, and there aren’t many women directors with kids out there as role models.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up.

‘A New Model’ is saying that women should be confident in who they are and that they can be their own role models.

I didn’t see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in ‘Akeelah and The Bee.’ That film made me realize that I wasn’t an alien.

I don’t really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn’t do X or Y because they are role models.

There’s no shortage of female role models. They’re everywhere – in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

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

I don’t think that there are many, many strong, black male role models who provide a certain kind of really American, Southern-based comfort that Madea grows out of. She’s a signpost in our Obama world of traditional Christian values.

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.

I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn’t telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I’m so glad that it’s changing.

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.

Growing up, I really didn’t have a lot of role models.

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

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.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

Young women can be particularly hampered by a lack of female teachers, since they may not feel as comfortable in classes taught by men. And as more girls see educated women who are prominent in their careers and communities, the more positive role models there are for them to emulate.

Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women – they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.