Role Models Quotes

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

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.

Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

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.

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

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.

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

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!

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

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.

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.

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.

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

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."

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

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.

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.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

Hey baby. You're sexy like a chocolate strawberry.

There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

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.

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.

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.

Being a role model is a privilege.