Quotes About Positive Role Models

#1. I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

Agyness Deyn

#2. 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

#3. I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

Kevin James

#4. I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they've changed over the years - how the princesses have become more positive role models right up until 'Frozen.'

Lily James

#5. 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

#6. The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

Marla Gibbs

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

Helen Keller

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

Donald Miller

#12. We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.

Ian Hecox

#13. The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.

Bethany Mota

#14. I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

Natalie Portman

#15. When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.

James Clavell

#16. I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

MC Hammer

#17. 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

#18. I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one

Annie Dillard

#19. There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

Dick Wolf

#20. ...your ass is grass...

Lauren Myracle

#21. The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Dante Hall

#22. For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

Hans Kung

#23. How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

Joy Adamson

#24. People can poison people; people can also promote people. People can push people up; people can also pull people down. Don't just follow people cheerfully; follow people carefully!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. You are the beginning of Eternity now, she said silently to Master Haywood. You have arrived at the end of Fear. And I will love you always, for as long as the world endures.

Sherry Thomas

#26. This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here ... MAKE IT COUNT!

Steve Maraboli

#27. Perfection doesn't exist here, AWESOME does.

Tanya Masse

#28. Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Cicely Tyson

#29. Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

Linda Chavez