Top 68 Best Role Models Quotes
#1. We as parents are our children's first and best role models, and this is particularly true when it comes to their health ... We can't lie around on the couch eating French fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block.
Michelle Obama
#2. 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.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#3. I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
Meryl Streep
#4. Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
Lee Haney
#5. I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.
Rihanna
#6. I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!
Madam C. J. Walker
#7. America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.
Mark Indelicato
#8. I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.
Kristina Schroder
#9. Simply be the qualities you seek in others.
Wayne Dyer
#10. We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.
Josh McDowell
#11. We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.
David First
#12. I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.
Wilma Rudolph
#13. A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
Molly Ringwald
#14. A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
Brendan Behan
#15. I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.
Mia Tyler
#16. But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.
Dominique Wilkins
#17. I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport," she said. "That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen and what do you do? Do you crumble with your life or do you go forward? Hee said she chose to go forward.
Dana Hee
#18. Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.
Chelsea Clinton
#19. My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez. When I see their work, I get engulfed in it. They really capture me.
Raven-Symone
#20. Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
Edmund White
#21. Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#22. I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.
Selena
#23. You can talk about right and wrong and good and bad all day long, but ultimately people need to see it. Seeing and studying the actual lives of people is simply the best way to communicate ideas about how to behave and how not to behave. We need heroes and role models.
Eric Metaxas
#24. It's overwhelming ... to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that's a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I'll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.
Selena
#25. We can best help our children not by sacrificing ourselves for them, but by trying to fulfill our own lives. When we are involved in an honest pursuit of our own goals, we serve as positive role models for our children.
Lisa Firestone
#26. The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
Zig Ziglar
#27. The best way to teach is how you live your life.
Gina Greenlee
#28. The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.
Jack Welch
#29. The best business models become role models for others.
David Hieatt
#30. One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
Epictetus
#31. To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.
Xavi
#32. As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#33. Always do your best in whatever you do;
set goals and seek challenges;
become a role model for those coming behind you; and
always have God in your heart.
Charles F. Bolden
#34. I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
Ville Valo
#35. Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.
Michael Greger
#36. My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Meryl Streep
#37. Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
Beth Ditto
#38. I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
Benigno Aquino III
#39. When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.
Joseph Campbell
#40. The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I've seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
L.J.Smith
#41. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.
Lucy Lawless
#42. Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
Chip Conley
#43. I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.
Doreen Virtue
#44. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.
Dorothy Hamill
#45. A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#46. Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.
Robin Hoyle
#47. I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'
Curtis Jackson
#48. I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.
Larry Ellison
#49. I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.
Mark Indelicato
#50. My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.
Jennifer Beals
#51. To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
Dave Winfield
#52. Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine
Common
#53. It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.
Mac Barnett
#54. We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.
Tony Robbins
#55. I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
Derek Jeter
#56. A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that's why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it's not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It's not enough to say 'no' to drugs. What do you say 'yes' to?
Sherwood Schwartz
#57. The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.
David Eagleman
#58. We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.
Newt Gingrich
#59. How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models.
Bill Watterson
#60. 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.
Mitch Harper
#61. Lord, help my children to make godly friends. I know that You brought us here and You will not leave my children forsaken. I'm concerned that in their need for acceptance they'll end up with friends whose moral standards are not as high as Yours. Bring godly role models into their lives.
Stormie O'martian
#62. The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
Brian J. White
#63. I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
Michael Eric Dyson
#64. Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#65. I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.
Anne Hathaway
#66. Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.
Ralph Strangis
#68. 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
Luke Wood
