Inspirational role model quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
Powerful Collection of Most Famous Role Model Quotes
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. – John Wooden
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about. – Tiger Woods
Each person must live their life as a model for others. – Rosa Parks
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. – Dolly Parton
But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, yes, someone like me can do this. – Sonia Sotomayor
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. – Barry Bonds
Being a role model is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be. – Meryl Streep
…But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, ‘Yes, someone like me can do this. – Sonia Sotomayor
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. – Mary D. Poole
As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow. – Himanshu Bhatia
You manage things; you lead people. – Grace Murray Hopper
I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them. – Denzel Washington
We need good role models, and they have to start at the top. – Frank Serpico
Being a role model…is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will be. – Meryl Streep
It can have an impact just to see people like you taking up space – Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
The idea of ‘possibility’ – the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it’s possible. – Laverne Cox
Here’s what I always say: If they can see it, they can be it. – Geena Davis
I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up. – Jennifer Lopez
Children are great imitators, so give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous
I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. – Charles Barkley
Be a role model just because you can and because you care. – Anonymous
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
I never thought a role model should be negative. – Michael Jordan
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
Be the flame of fate, that torch of truth to guide our young people toward a better future for themselves and for this country. – Michelle Obama
The more people look up to me, the more important it is to be concise with what message I want to leave. – Ruby Rose
… it’s good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors. – Condoleezza Rice
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. – Sheri L. Dew
Pick your role models wisely. – Lana Del Rey
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
I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them. – Denzel Washington
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
Role models set goals for you and try to make you as good as they are. Role models are important. – Kasey Zacharias
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
I think role models also start in the home with your parents. – Dominique Wilkins
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life’s scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children’s lives. – Stephen R. Covey
Each person must live their life as a role model for others. – Rosa Parks
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. – Albert Einstein
My role model didn’t tell me, he showed me. – Anonymous
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. – Rosabeth Moss Kantor
By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life. – Eric Allenbaugh
Example is leadership. – Albert Schweitzer
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. – Khalil Gibran
It’s my responsibility to help others. To be a positive example. I want to be a role model for others, to help others like me get a chance. – Rob Jeter
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. – Charlotte Davis-Kasl
We tend to become like those we admire. – Thomas Monson
You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life. – Eric Allenbaugh
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it. – Anonymous
The best way to teach children restraint and generosity is to be a model of those qualities yourself. – Lawrence Balter
Children need role models rather than critics. – Joseph Joubert
You’ve got to be careful whom you pattern yourself after because you’re likely to become just like them. – Rich Mayo
A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself. – Tionne Watkins
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. – Epictetus
My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I’m preaching, I’m practicing. – Gigi Hadid
Being is the great explainer. – Henry David Thoreau
I’ve always thought of myself as a role model even before being a celebrity. I’ve always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there. – Eva Longoria
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. – Immanuel Kant
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to. – Wayne Rooney
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. – Robert Fulghum
We do not imitate, but are a model to others. – Pericles
When I think of my version of a role model, it’s not about being the perfect Samaritan; it’s just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect. – Zoe Kravitz
As a parent, you will often serve as an inadvertent example to your child. A child will model himself after you in many areas: how you deal with frustration, settle disagreements and cope with not being able to have the things that you want, to name just three. – Lawrence Balter
When things turn out pretty much as expected, parents give little thought to how much they have influenced the outcome. When thing s don’t turn out as expected, parents give a great deal of thought to the role they play. – Arlene Harder
To change bad habits we must study the habits of successful role models. – Jack Canfield
One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would like them to be. – Carol B. Hillman
Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models. – Alice Sterling Honig
When you see a role model, what you see is a person who has the courage to be who you wish you could be. Stop wishing and just be. – Anonymous
There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture. – Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. – Oliver Goldsmith
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models. – Andrew Shue
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton
Simply be the qualities you seek in others. – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
What you teach your own children is what you really believe in. – Cathy Warner Weatherford
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another’s fame – Baltasar Gracian
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves – Tyron Edwards
The idea of possibility, the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully, will show to other folks that it’s possible. – Laverne Cox
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. – Ann Richards
If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. – Rachel Carson
Be the role model you needed when you were younger. – Anonymous
One does not become a guru by accident. – James Fenton
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willling to be judged. – Frederick Smith
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. – Confucius
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren Bennis
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. – Mark Twain
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model – because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I’m offstage, I’m just like everybody else. – Britney Spears
I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there’s another way. – M.C. Hammer
To achieve your goal you have to get into the character of a winner. Confident people have a certain way of presenting themselves. Observe people who are confident and successful and try to emulate them in your life. – Dr Anil Kr Sinha
Be someone’s inspiration before you have the chance to be, inspire the change in someone that will inspire more change in the world. – Anurag Prakash Ray
Be honest when you are with your kids, because you see your past in their eyes and they see their future in yours. – Nishan Panwar
