Top 30 Role Models Quotes – Some of the most inspiring Role Models quotations

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.

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.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

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

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.

Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren’t celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

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.

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.

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

In a fast changing world, choosing a role model becomes exceedingly tough. An easier option could be to chose anti-role-models. . . people you would not like to be, or things you would not like to do!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My peers are my role models, and my role models are my peers. Which is extraordinary.

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

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

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.

Pick your role models wisely.

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

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

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