Best 273 quotes in «role models quotes» category

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff from children. They look up to me. Kids get different labels and things like that and I want those kids to succeed.

One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don't really talk candidly about what's going on and the struggle - the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

People always ask me about the role models that I'm providing for kids, and I say I can't be concerned with that. I'm not worrying about corrupting youth. I'm worrying about writing realistically and truthfully to affect the reader.

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

People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I'm just happy to inspire growth and positivity.

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

Pokémon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart.

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

Role model? I don't have one. I want to be one.

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.

Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.

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.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!

Sachin is the greatest role model I've ever met.

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.

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

Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.

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.

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you

Three of Donald Trump's kids have come forward to defend him, and called him 'an incredible dad and role model.' Donald was so moved that he wrote one of them back into his will. 'I'm not gonna tell you which one . . . it's Donald Jr.'

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

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

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.

We rappers are role models.

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.

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.

When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.