Top 25 Role Models Quotes – Some of the most inspiring Role Models quotations

People need role models. Are you up to the job?

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

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.

Role models really matter. It’s hard to imagine yourself as something you don’t see.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

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

I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That’s what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I’m super competitive.

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

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can’t find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

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

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.

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.

My role models have kept on changing.

People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don’t wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

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.

It’s funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don’t feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who’s doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it’s more possible.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress – stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

Companies and leaders are role models – not just with the business community – but in the broader world.

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

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.

I don’t have just one role model – rather, pieces of inspiration from many different entrepreneurs. One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that it naturally enables you to build a village of advisors and role models.

Pick your role models wisely.

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.

Let’s face it: Most of us don’t realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it’s important that your kids see you reading. Not just books – reading the newspaper is good, too.