Quotes About Male Role Models

#1. Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

Geoffrey Canada

#2. I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

Brian Michael Bendis

#3. I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.

Donald Miller

#4. The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

Kevin Powers

#5. I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

Bailey Chase

#6. We have to have positive male role models.

Donald Miller

#7. Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

George MacDonald

#8. I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Edna Longley

#9. I did have role models, but most of them were male.

Emily Robison

#10. Working for Peter was like sticking your head in a lion's mouth: thrilling, but not particularly safe.

Anonymous

#11. I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

Tariq Ramadan

#12. When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

Abby Wambach

#13. I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. Nor could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the feeling of farewell and longing for others.

Kim Hyesoon

#14. As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

Omari Hardwick

#15. Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

William Lyon Phelps

#16. For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.

Kristina Schroder

#17. And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Henry Miller

#18. If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

Hilary Mantel

#20. The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

Charles Spurgeon