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

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.

I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities. I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable. I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him. Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things.

I’ve never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I’ve done business with more of them and they’re leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

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.

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.

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

I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models.

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.

I’m learning as I go. I don’t know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I’m from I didn’t have any famous role models.

The most important role models in people’s lives, it seems, aren’t superstars or household names. They’re ‘everyday’ people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, ‘I want to be like that.’

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I’m so powerful, I’m so faster. I’m so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.

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.

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 think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it’s really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don’t see.

I never really thought about the fact that there weren’t female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong.

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

As for my role models… you know, I’m an immigrant, so we didn’t grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, ‘You must read your books.’

When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are told you’ll never amount to anything, etc, the challenges are enormous.

Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we’re relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now the majority of college graduates, we have role models like Hillary Clinton to look up to – it seems like the world is completely open to us and we can accomplish anything. I think feminists are often disdained today because we’re seen as complaining about a problem people think no longer exists. I also think young women shy away from calling themselves feminists because many haven’t been educated about it or exposed to it. They don’t know enough about it to identify with it.

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.

My grandfather was a very courageous man, and I consider myself very lucky because I have three powerful role models that will obviously influence my career choices when I am older.

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?