Top 20 Role Models Quotes – Some of the most inspiring Role Models quotations

We need good role models, and they have to start at the top.

My role models have kept on changing.

I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

So many black kids aspire to be entertainers or professional athletes because those are the only role models they see that look like them. There are only 300 jobs in the NBA but an endless amount of opportunities as an entrepreneur. With enough hustle, entrepreneurship opens doors to a world of opportunities.

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn’t feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.

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

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

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 think role models exist, but they usually don’t get the light because people like scandal.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, ‘If they can do this, so can I.’ That starts to trigger people, as well.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

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

I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there’s someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

I don’t believe athletes should be role models. . . . We’re a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models. . . . I think one of the problems in society today is that we don’t stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses.

You don’t have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about – never actually met.