Top 50 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

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

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

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!

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

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.

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.

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.

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

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

I don’t hold myself out as a role model. I don’t believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

You should be careful what you choose to see as a role model, whereas inspiration can come from anywhere.

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

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.’

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.

I don’t think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

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

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

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

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

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.

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

If I can’t serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

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

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.

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

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

Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs – awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody’s gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I’m preaching, I’m practicing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.