Top 100 Quotes About Role Models
#1. When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
Walter Payton
#2. Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress - stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
Tim Ferriss
#3. 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
#4. I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#5. I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?
Bethany Hamilton
#6. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.
Coretta Scott King
#7. My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#8. I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.
Anjelica Huston
#9. 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
#10. Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
Harlan Coben
#11. 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
#12. They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
Salma Hayek
#13. You have no spirit of culinary adventure. You need to be more like that snarky guy on the Travel Channel. He goes all over the world eating kangaroo a**holes and snail throw-up. He'd eat anything. He don't care how sick he gets. He's another one of my role models, except he needs ironing.
Janet Evanovich
#15. I worked with Seann William Scott on 'Role Models,' and his arms are tatted up. He had to come to set an hour-and-a-half early to get them covered. It's not worth it. I want that extra hour of sleep.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#16. Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#17. In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.
John Bradshaw
#18. All the role models are being exposed and this is good because role models are shit. The quicker we exposed them the better. The whole concept of role models is frightful! You gotta make your own role.
William S. Burroughs
#19. There are great people in life who give you inspiration to keep going and get through the hard times. I have been blessed to have such role models in my life. It would be a privilege if achieving my dream could inspire the next generation.
Michelle Payne
#20. 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
#21. Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.
Liza M. Wiemer
#22. 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
#23. I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.
Christopher Parker
#24. It's important for moms, but also dads, to recognize that they're role models when it comes to their kids' physical health, when it comes to working out, and when it comes to nutrition.
Dominique Dawes
#25. Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.
Benjamin Hooks
#26. Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
#27. I wouldn't say there's a need for the Spice Girls, but I'd say there's a place for the Spice Girls. There's certainly a place for them, but you don't promote the Spice Girls at the expense of promoting what I think are good role models for girls. You need to create some kind of equality.
Greg Graffin
#28. My peers are my role models, and my role models are my peers. Which is extraordinary.
David Levithan
#29. I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
Larisa Oleynik
#30. I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.
John Amaechi
#31. Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.
Jerome Ringo
#32. There was a moral foundation to Walt's movies that people tapped into - a basic moral foundation. In Disney films, you see strong values and role models. You see the importance of being kind to others, of serving others, of finding joy even in adversity.
Pat Williams
#33. You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.
Kirsten Vangsness
#34. Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
Ben Carson
#35. I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.
Leah Busque
#36. One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
Bill Dedman
#37. I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That's what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I'm super competitive.
Danica Patrick
#38. I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.
Tupac Shakur
#39. 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
#40. I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
Umberto Eco
#41. You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
John Wilson
#42. People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#43. I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
Jeremy Lin
#44. 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
#45. The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."
Tim Foley
#46. In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.
Mika.
#47. I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.
Chelsea Clinton
#48. Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
Wangari Maathai
#49. The world needs role models, instead of critics.
Denis Waitley
#50. Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Bill Bradley
#51. 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
#52. I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
Madeleine Albright
#54. The best business models become role models for others.
David Hieatt
#55. I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron."
Alexandra Daddario
#56. Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.
Donn Moomaw
#57. With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.
Michelle Obama
#58. Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.
Justin Bieber
#59. I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
Brandi Carlile
#60. I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
Wale
#61. If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.
Andrea Roth
#62. One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
Epictetus
#63. Consider their role models," Nick said. "You can't change the tide with an oar.
Gary Ponzo
#64. One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.
Azim Premji
#65. From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales,
Jeffrey Kluger
#66. 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
#67. I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
Jonathan Brandis
#68. I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.
Jennie Finch
#69. We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
Marian Wright Edelman
#70. I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.
Mark Millar
#71. Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
Ann Landers
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Disappointments are worse when they are caused by the people who should be your role models.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#75. Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
Bob Keeshan
#76. The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.
Bryan Batt
#77. We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.
Tony Dungy
#78. I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.
Michael Redhill
#79. We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art
BeBe Zahara Benet
#80. The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.
John Yarmuth
#81. One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#82. 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
#83. In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
Pranab Mukherjee
#84. Our role models today
60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be
Prince Ea
#85. Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.
Tony Dungy
#86. I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.
Lily Allen
#87. It's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.
Condoleezza Rice
#88. To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.
Jack Canfield
#89. My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
Gabriel Mann
#90. Congratulations, Jethro. She's sweet on you. You've just taken one the world's most famous role models of feminine independence and turned her into a giddy, flustered mess of hormones.
Penny Reid
#91. Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions.
Michael Hastings
#92. The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.
Kelley Armstrong
#94. I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
Armistead Maupin
#95. My parents are my role models. All they've done for me, they're just major people in my life. They've stood by me and got me where I am today.
Keke Palmer
#96. We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.
Patricia Sequeira Belvel
#97. That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.
Stephen Bayley
#98. The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.
Andrew Shue
#99. The problem with role models is they teach you roles.
Joe Hill
#100. I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.
Brittany Snow
