Role Models Quotes - Page 5

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.

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.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

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

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

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.

I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a role model for kids who want to follow their dreams.

By staying true to yourself, you keep your energy high and clear, and you provide inspirational role modeling for other healers and helpers. Integrity toward yourself is a gift to the world.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool. With everything he's done and how professional he's remained through it all, I think he's an awesome role model as far as work ethic and tenacity. He just seems like he knows how to get it done.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.