Role Models Quotes

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.

~ Lana Del Rey

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

~ Stephen Colbert

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

~ George Carlin

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

~ Bertolt Brecht

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ John Wooden

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

~ Liza M. Wiemer

When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall.

~ G. Neri

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps.

~ Carl Sagan

We seldom look up to the person, we usually look up to their persona.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

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

~ Meryl Streep

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit and intellect--even if rejected--enrich and enlarge one's view of existence. Deadlier still, to the artist who lacks models, is the curse of ridicule, the bringing to bear on an artist's best work, especially his or her most original, most strikingly deviant, only a fund of ignorance and the presumption that as an artist's critic one's judgement is free of the restrictions imposed by prejudice, and is well informed, indeed, about all the art in the world that really matters.

~ Alice Walker

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive.

~ Amy Chua

Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

~ Evan Meekins

Without even trying to be a teacher, Fredrika is teaching us,Showing us how to see things in new waysInstead of always thinkingThe same old thoughtsThat have been passed along by strangersDay after day, year after yearWithout any spirit of amazementOr wonder

~ Margarita Engle

If I had had a daughter, I always knew what I would tell her. First of all, I would try to counter all outdated stereotypical claptrap that girls are commonly told about their sex--that women are valued far more for their sexual characteristics than their character and brains--and encourage her to be a truly independent person. Only knowing who she is herself will she be able to find find her own life's work and make good decisions in choosing a partner and having children.

~ Doris Anderson

I hear many young women say they can't find well-known feminists with whom they identify. That can be disheartening, but I say, let us (try to) become the feminists we would like to see moving through the world.

~ Roxane Gay

Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct. I hear many young women say they can’t find well-known feminists with whom they identify. That can be disheartening, but I say, let us (try to) become the feminists we would like to see moving through the world.

~ Roxane Gay

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

~ Joseph Campbell

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

~ Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.

~ Robin Hoyle

The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

~ Gina Greenlee

We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one is imperfect, except the One perfect lamb who was crucified for our sins. He was the scapegoat. He was the rejected One.

~ Sue Detweiler

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Always do your best in whatever you do, set goals and seek challenges, become a role model for those coming behind you, and always have God in your heart.

~ Charles F. Bolden

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

~ Barry Deutsch

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.

~ Gina Greenlee

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

~ Leonard Sax

My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.

~ Christy Leigh Stewart

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

~ Onyi Anyado