#Role Models Quotes

“Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say.”

“We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.”

“The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.”

“I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.”

“We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.”

“If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.”

“People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

“The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.”

“You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.”

“Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.”

“Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.”

“You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes”

“People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.”

“There's room for role models who make mistakes.”

“When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.”

“We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. 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.”

“How can I be a man if there is no role model?”

“Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.”

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

“From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.”

“I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.”

“Faith Hill is a big role model.”

“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.”

“The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.”

“By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.”

“What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?”

“Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.”

“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.”

“It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.”

“Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

“When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.”

“Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.”

“If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.”

“I am not a role model.”

“My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.”

“I never thought a role model should be negative.”

“My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.”

“All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.”

“We rappers are role models.”

“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”

“When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.”

“A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.”

“I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.”

“Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.”

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