Top 40 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

Everyone should try to live their life like they’d like to be a role model.

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.

The best thing I could do is build a successful company and continue to innovate and be in the right role I want to be in. If I’m not doing that, I’m inauthentic. That’s not a good role model to anyone. That, to me, is the most important thing.

Be a role model just because you can and because you care.

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

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

I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don’t really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you.

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.’

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

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!

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.

It’s amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

Who comes to your mind when you think of your role model in life?

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it’s hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they’ve done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

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.

It’s sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child’s nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

Each person must live their life as a role model for others.

I don’t think you should do things in your personal life differently because you’re a role model.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they’re really inspiring because they seem wise; they’ve gone through things.

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

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.

Being a role model is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be.

I think a role model is a person who says, ‘This is who I am.’

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

It’s my responsibility to help others. To be a positive example. I want to be a role model for others, to help others like me get a chance.

When you see a role model, what you see is a person who has the courage to be who you wish you could be. Stop wishing and just be.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

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.

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don’t think that’s fair.

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.

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you.

I don’t have an inspiration, I don’t have a role model. I like to meet different people and gain something from their experiences and their lives. I take inspiration and worth through what they’ve gone through. I don’t have one person I look up to always, apart from the person that I am, if that makes sense. I just look up to the person that I was yesterday and I just try to better myself whichever way I can.