Role Models Quotes - Page 7

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

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

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to 'be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.' And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday.

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone - including yourself - upward.

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

My hairstyle role model is Manuel Neuer. His hair is always perfect.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambition. But she's in the entertainment world. She's done it on her looks and very specifically on her anatomy. Madonna is also considered a great businesswoman and so is Yoko Ono. I feel if I had a young daughter right now, I would feel a little discouraged if that was my daughter's primary role model for success and for young people, for Latinas and Latinos.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

I like the idea of being a role model. It's an honor.

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.