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

Of course sportsmen and women are not only great role models, they are great fashion models too, as they are at the peak of physical perfection.

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.

Role models set goals for you and try to make you as good as they are. Role models are important.

My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another perspective, I had really no artist role models to fall under. No guidance in terms of intellect. In terms of not having to relate to a physical persona to get through. I wanted to relate, combine the physical personal, combine the machismo with intellect, with intelligence, with craftsmanship, with creating works that people would just look at and their jaws would just drop open, and ‘Wow! This is like incredible work!’

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

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

We all know we’re conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we’re doing is in line with them.

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.

I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies – whoever it is – very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I’m in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that’s what we want to be known for.

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

All the role models are being exposed and this is good because role models are shit. The quicker we exposed them the better. The whole concept of role models is frightful! You gotta make your own role.

They’re not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

I mean there’s still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I’m just happy to inspire growth and positivity.

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.

Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman’s ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.

In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men’s [sexual] affairs did not put women’s economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men’s affairs did place women’s economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women’s economic security in jeopardy.

One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

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.

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.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

It’s important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are a lot of not-so-good role models out there for younger kids, it’s good to have someone they can relate to on television.

We look at the way some kids behave and instantly blame the parents, and more often than not we’re correct. The school bully is often a sign of poor parenting. That’s the immediate cause, but if we search for the root cause we have to dig much deeper than that. What on earth in that kid’s head makes it seem okay to bully people? Why are the parents doing such a poor job of bringing up their children? Probably because they didn’t have very effective role models themselves when they were growing up. It could go back generations.