Role models are individuals who inspire and guide others through their actions and behavior. They serve as examples for people to look up to and learn from. Quotes about role models are wise and powerful words that highlight the significance of these influential figures in our lives. These quotes often emphasize the importance of having positive role models who can shape our character, instill values, and motivate us to reach our full potential. They remind us of the impact that role models can have on our personal growth and development. Whether it is a famous athlete, a successful entrepreneur, or a dedicated teacher, role models play a vital role in shaping our aspirations and guiding us towards success.
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Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities. β John Wooden
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. β Andrew Shue
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives. β Stephen Covey
Children need models rather than critics. β Joseph Joubert
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. β Walter Payton
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. β John Wooden
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." β Sonia Sotomayor
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. β Barry Bonds
I never thought a role model should be negative. β Michael Jordan
Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes. β Bobby Bonilla
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. β Tiger Woods
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. β Lee Haney
Being a role model is about being true to myself. β Sayings
Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine β Common
Each person must live their life as a model for others. β Rosa Parks
Short Models Quotes
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. β Cleo Moore
I won't date a model, because models are perfect and perfect is boring. β Niall Horan
There are no cycles. There are no models. There is only Omega. β Samson Mow
One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera. β Janos Bolyai
I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am. β Jennifer Doudna
I'm always going to the toy store; I even have a room full of plastic models. β Akira Toriyama
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. β John Polkinghorne
All models are wrong, but some are useful. β George E. P. Box
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. β Karl Lagerfeld
Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions. β Jerome Powell
Models Image Quotes
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. β Oliver Goldsmith
Parents Are Role Models Quotes
Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit. β Bob Harper
Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias. β Rosie O'Donnell
Young women are not as likely to receive the encouragement they need from role models like teachers and parents. And they should be encouraged - studies show women are just as likely as men to win when they do run. β Tammy Duckworth
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. β Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. β Margaret Cho
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. β Michelle Obama
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. β Michelle Obama
The term role model is thrown around a lot, and I always tell people, your role models are hopefully parents and great influencers in your life. If I fall into that category, then I will embrace it for sure. β Sarah Thomas
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. β Raven-Symone
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? β Benigno Aquino III
Bad Role Models Quotes
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. β Justin Bieber
To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models. β Jack Canfield
Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad. β Toby Keith
Sportsmen just do what they do. I'm not trying to be a role model. If there's any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can - from my good and my bad. β Anthony Joshua
I don't want to be anyone's role model. My mole models were assholes. My role models are dead. My role models never made it to 30, so I'm a bad person to ask for advice. β Sharon Needles
I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good. β Brian Molko
Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I'm representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name. β Matt Diaz
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me. β Jack Dee
They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for. β Sayings
Being A Role Model Quotes
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. β Rick Ross
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect. β ASAP Rocky
You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting. β Condoleezza Rice
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself. β Louise Bourgeois
I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else. β Stephen Collins
I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model. β Peggy Whitson
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. β Tony Dungy
My life has definitely changed since 'Modern Family.' The show has made me more responsible, I really want to be a good role model for all kids so I have to think about what I say and do and how it looks to other kids! β Ariel Winter
I donβt want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model. β Queen Latifah
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man. β Jake Owen
My Role Model Quotes
I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family. β Celine Dion
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. β Kevin Powers
Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country. β Bianca Jagger
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. β Cicely Tyson
And to this day, my Mom is my role model. β Paul Ryan
My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing. β Gigi Hadid
Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose. ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids. β Tim Tebow
When girls come up and say, "You're my role model," it's really flattering, but it's also really scary because I'm not perfect and I'm going to make mistakes. β Ashley Greene
I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter. β Gal Gadot
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans. β Jerry Pinkney
Good Role Models Quotes
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. β Christopher Parker
It's important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are a lot of not-so-good role models out there for younger kids, it's good to have someone they can relate to on television. β Phoebe Tonkin
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. β Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it. β Lana Del Rey
I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything. β Curtis Joseph
Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things. β LeBron James
I had the vision of creating my own camp to make sure I was teaching the campers what I wanted. Plus I picked other players that were good on the field and off so we could be great role models for these girls to look up to. I hope to inspire others and encourage them to go after their dreams. β Jennie Finch
To me, I don't think it does anybody any good to just hide something or cover it up or lie or whatever. I think ... that's what being a role model is all about. It's not about being perfect. It's about speaking about your issues and inspiring others to get help. β Demi Lovato
Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it. β Lana Del Rey
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! β Dante Hall
Great Role Models Quotes
I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model. β Brian Littrell
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed. β Howard Wilkinson
Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that. β Mitch Hedberg
Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts. β Lily James
Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player! β Jack Wilshere
A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high. β Molly Ringwald
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. β Honore de Balzac
Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife. β Sunidhi Chauhan
I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek. He is a great role model for me. β Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Female Role Models Quotes
Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. β Richard Attias
Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then. β Erin Gray
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. β Jennie Finch
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. β Lucy Lawless
Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals! β Miranda Lambert
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around. β Keri Russell
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology. β Camille Paglia
When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her. β Sarah Michelle Gellar
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. β Warren Farrell
Oprah played a big role in my understanding of what it meant to be female and to really step into your own power. I wouldn't even call her a role model; she was literally a reference point. You have the dictionary, you have the Bible, you have Oprah. β Lupita Nyong'o
Positive Role Model Quotes
I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question. β Talib Kweli
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion. β Barry Williams
For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well. β Magnus Carlsen
We have to have positive male role models. β Donald Miller
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow. β Danica McKellar
I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold. β Natalie Portman
I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played. β Dustin Johnson
I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children. β Corey Feldman
I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can. β Lily Cole
First of all, I try to be a positive role model. β Bruce Jenner
Male Role Models Quotes
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. β Geoffrey Canada
But I think role models also start in the home with your parents. β Dominique Wilkins
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them. β Jim Costa
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. β Omari Hardwick
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. β Bailey Chase
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society. β Donald Miller
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. β Donald Miller
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. β Kim Hyesoon
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. β Kristina Schroder
I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it. β Brian Michael Bendis
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. β Richard Buckminster Fuller
If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models. β Lester B. Pearson
People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, thatβs what team chemistry and leadership is all about. β Nick Saban
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. β Terence McKenna
There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate. β Pierre Trudeau
The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God. β Tony Evans
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. β Richard Buckminster Fuller
I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt. β Ashley Graham
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. β Richard Buckminster Fuller
If you say something that is a little unsafe to say but you feel strongly and passionate about it, a lot of people can attack you and call you a bad role model just because they don't agree with your views, but in reality we're all different and we're all unique in our own way and we all have different thoughts. β Melanie Martinez
The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness. β Christine Caine
The number of those who do selfless public service and those who serve without expecting any return, should increase. Their sterling qualities should show the way to the people at large. Their life would be a model to show how man should conduct himself in public life. β Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me. β Maya Angelou
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. β Gilda Radner
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem. β Stephen Covey
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature β Naomi Klein
Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us. β Charles Spurgeon
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. β Miuccia Prada
As the ice melts and the tundra is exposed, two things are likely to happen to accelerate the process of the graying of the ice cap. Residue from the industrial work destined to take place will land on the snow and ice, further reducing the amount of heat-reflecting territory. The darker-colored land and open water will then absorb more heat than the ice and snow they replace, thus increasing the size of the darker territory. Some climate models say the Arctic will be ice-free during the summer by the end of the century; a few predict this much sooner. β Tim Marshall
Children generally follow the example of their parents, but imitate their faults more surely than their virtues. β Icelandic Proverbs
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? β Stephen Hawking
What parents teach is themselves, as models of what is human - by their moods, their reactions, their facial expressions and actions. These are the real things parents need to be aware of, and of how they affect their children. Allow them to know you, and it might become easier for them to learn about themselves. β Magda Gerber
The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass. β Philip Yancey
We spent a lot of time trying to understand what GPT-4 is capable of. Getting it out in the world is how we learn. Weβre constantly making updates, include a bunch of improvements, so that the model is much more scalable to whatever personality or sort of mode you want it to be in. β Greg Brockman
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. β Wade Davis
My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. β Carol Alt
Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be. β Stephen LaBerge
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast. β Larry Fink
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. β Edmund Barton
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given whatβs needed by nature, and whatβs needed is to bring something new. β Karl Lagerfeld
In Conclusion
Quotes about role models are often profound and thought-provoking. They remind us that a role model is not just someone to admire, but also someone to emulate. Such quotes emphasize the values of integrity, dedication, and perseverance that role models exhibit. They highlight the significance of finding role models who possess qualities we wish to acquire and who can inspire us to become better versions of ourselves. Quotes about role models serve as reminders that we can learn valuable lessons from those who have achieved greatness, and that we should strive to be positive role models for others as well.
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