Top 15 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone – including yourself – upward.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I have to tell you, I’m proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people’s lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, ‘Yes, someone like me can do this.’

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model – whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers – it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are — cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

It’s a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn’t qualify as a role model. It’s just sad.

Everyone knows someone struggling in some kind of way. You are a role model to so many people, even if you don’t realize it. Take someone under your wing. Show them the right way to do things.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become–whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm–her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, ‘Yes, someone like me can do this.

My role model didn’t tell me, he showed me.

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.