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

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

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.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

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.

Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have established themselves in tech fields where women, and minority women in particular, tend to be underrepresented.

I wouldn’t say there’s a need for the Spice Girls, but I’d say there’s a place for the Spice Girls. There’s certainly a place for them, but you don’t promote the Spice Girls at the expense of promoting what I think are good role models for girls. You need to create some kind of equality.

I talk about role models a lot and wanting to be a role model for kids around me because I didn’t have that growing up.

I don’t have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don’t even know who the people are. I think that’s good, because then you don’t have preconceived ideas about them.

We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact – for good.

My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can’t live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that’s a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.

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.

The American people don’t believe politicians. They don’t believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don’t believe the news media.

Don’t believe in role models, but if I do, then I’m mine.

Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it’s predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it’s 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it’s your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.

Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn’t have any female 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 see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can’t control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’ Like women who endure hardships and turn their luck around and bring up children on their own and start a business. Or a social worker who leaves his country, his comfort, his friends, and goes far away to help people he doesn’t know. I want to evolve into that, ultimately. I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today’s women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

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

Service is selflessness–the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don’t often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book–and others who did things I can’t talk about–are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): ‘Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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.