Top 60 Role Model Quotes That Are Inspirational to Encourage You to Be the Best Role Model Possible

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think it’s important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I’m proud to be a role model!

I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.’

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

Be the role model you needed when you were younger.

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.

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.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.

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

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

Faith Hill is a big role model.

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.

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

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.

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

God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.

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

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 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.

The greatest joy a parent can have and an affirmation of being an outstanding role model is when your child tells you she wants to be just like you. So be the most outstanding you because when you become a parent one day, your children will be proud to be just like you.

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that’s who we are as real people.

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.

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.

I don’t want to be a bad role model.

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

A true leader must strive towards a grand vision of human progress, but remember that the minor details of her everyday life really matter to those who look up to her as a role model.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.

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.

Let’s make our role model famous, instead of making famous people our role model…

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!

Everyone knows someone struggling in some kind of way. You are a role model to so many people, even if you don’t realize it. Take someone under your wing. Show them the right way to do things.

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

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

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.’

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!

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

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.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

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

Being a role model is a privilege.

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

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.

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.