Top 440 Role Model Quotes

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don’t have that role model to teach you how to do things.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

My father who was there in the house, he wasn’t at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

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.

I’m not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.

You should be careful what you choose to see as a role model, whereas inspiration can come from anywhere.

Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.

I think some people really change when they become a dad. Like, I’ve changed in different ways. I – but, like, my comedy hasn’t changed. And I’ve also seen people do that where you become this – you become a dad, and then all of a sudden, you’re trying to be a role model.

Every time I look at both of my children, I see a future which is very bright for them, and I recognize that I need to be a role model. If they see me as someone who can achieve whatever I want, I believe that they will follow in my footsteps, and that is something that I strive for every single day.

That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.

I’m all about being a role model to kids. I enjoy doing it, and I like putting smiles on kids’ faces.

When ‘Joy Luck Club’ came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I’m much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.

It’s special to me, a privilege being a role model. I take pride in being a good one.

I see myself as a role model, and I think that everything that I am putting out is positive.

A lot of times, I get asked, ‘Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?’ I don’t see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I’m a girl, I’m supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

I’ve always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I’ve also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.

At the risk of damaging the ‘First Take’ ratings, the God’s truth is I do not hate LeBron James. I actually like the man, who seems as close to being a role model as any superstar can be. He seems to be a good father and husband with a sharing, caring heart.

There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn’t a big enough role model for me. I couldn’t go around abolishing slavery.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

Mr. Kraft and his family, they gave me an opportunity to come out and play in the NFL. And just to see the kind of role model Mr. Kraft is in the community, he’s always around; he’s here every day – darn near – he’s very involved, and he’s just a good man. Nothing but respect, and it starts at the top.

I certainly want to continue to be a role model. But I don’t think it’s necessarily about being a female in our business. I think it’s about… my track record, my results.

I don’t have a role model.

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don’t like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

I just feel like I have a chance to be a role model now.

I feel like I’m held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I’m a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, ‘Hey, it’s OK to starve yourself’ or ‘It’s OK to throw up after your meals’ – that’s not OK.

I realize that I was being the kind of parent that I thought my daughter needed. I was a good role model for her on what a working mom can do.

I’m not really a role model; just don’t do what I do.

I have to tell you, I’m proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people’s lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

I have a purpose and a meaning in life, and I have to fulfill that. Being a champion is great, but more importantly than that, you get to be an inspiration and a role model to other people.

I don’t want to say names, but there are certain companies I won’t work with because of previous people they’ve worked with. I don’t want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don’t necessarily think is a good role model.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Neymar is my only role model.

When I was a teenager, a mean comment would have hurt me deeply, I’ve made it my mission to be a role model for young girls and boys and help show them that other people’s words or opinions have nothing to do with how beautiful they actually are.

I’ve deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I want to be a role model and an advocate for social change.

If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that’s the most secure path you can take – a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.

I know in Australia I have a lot of girls that look up to me and they send me messages on my Facebook and stuff, which is always lovely, and I think of myself as a really good role model.

Look at Virat Kohli, he is such a fantastic role model. India is a fortunate country. Every generation produces players who all of us cherish.

My role model was Sachin Tendulkar as a kid. I feel very proud that I have been able to follow his footsteps and become a UNICEF ambassador like him.

I never thought in a million years that I would be called a role model for girls and even boys, too.

Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I’m grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model – because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else.

As a responsible citizen and a role model to a certain section of people, I need to use every available platform to reach out to the impressionable sections of our country.

During the second term of the Clinton presidency… I thought, ‘Here is the literal and figurative role model for the United States of America behaving like a perverted little kid.’ I just found it all really unmanly and undignified.

It’s important that I’m a role model and that the companies that I associate myself with feel the same way about their own images. Those are companies I’d like to be associated with.

To be part of this exclusive club is special. It’s a proud day for me. It’s special for me. I get a chance to join Cheryl, the first brother-sister act in the Hall of Fame. She was a role model.

The idea of being a role model is bizarre.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

Don’t judge my dad on the one thing he did wrong and not on all the things he did right. For such a long time, he was such a huge role model for kids and such a positive thing. That’s the one thing about this business is you get tormented for the one thing that is negative versus all the great things you have done.

Springsteen is a hero to a lot of people in New Jersey. He’s a role model – because he’s a local guy who got out.

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother’s generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.