Role Quotes

A good example is the best sermon.

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.

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.

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.

Being a role model is a privilege.

When girls come up and say, "You're my role model," it's really flattering, but it's also really scary because I'm not perfect and I'm going to make mistakes.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

Being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

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.

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

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

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

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

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.

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

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

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.

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.

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.

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

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

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.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

We have to have positive male role models.

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 feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.