Role Models Quotes - Page 4

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

It's overwhelming ... to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that's a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I'll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say.

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.

Today I detach from other people's dramas. I love them and pray for them. I am a role model of peace for them. But I no longer rescue them, or put my own needs last. It is my right to be happy and to help others as I feel lovingly guided instead from guilt or obligation. I respect my feelings and expect others to do so too. And so it is!

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

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.

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.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

I take being a role model seriously.

Role model? I don't have one. I want to be one.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.

We have to have positive male role models.