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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

topic: Creativity, Role Models, Roles, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Moral Leadership

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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Uncles, School, Role Models, Medical Education

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Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model

topic: Stars, Role Models, Honor, Pioneering

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

topic: Mean, Play, Role Models, Positive Role Model

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

- Albert Pujols

topic: Children, Role Models, Roles, Young Children, Being A Role Model

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

source: "Alexa Chung: 'I'm probably not the best role model'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

topic: Role Models, Political, Roles

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

topic: Unique, Self, Role Models, Being A Role Model, Unique Self

Being a role model is a privilege.

- Allyson Felix

topic: Role Models, Roles, Privilege, Being A Role Model

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

topic: Dream, People, Role Models, Bigger And Better, Good Role Models

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Models

It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.

topic: Mistake, Perfect, Role Models

I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

- Anjelica Huston

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, People, Role Models

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

- Anna Maria Chavez

source: "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago — Now it’s Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

topic: Girl, Role Models, Mentor

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

- Anthony Giddens

topic: Role Models, Unity, Important, Clusters

My life has definitely changed since 'Modern Family.' The show has made me more responsible, I really want to be a good role model for all kids so I have to think about what I say and do and how it looks to other kids!

source: "Exclusive: Ariel Winter of Modern Family". Interview, www.seventeen.com. February 16, 2011.

topic: Kids, Thinking, Role Models, Modern Family, Good Role Models

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

source: "ASAP Rocky on gay rights: 'I treat everybody equal'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 26, 2013.

topic: Mean, People, Role Models, I'm Not Perfect

My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.

- Ashley Tisdale

topic: Mom, Role Models, Roles

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

source: "Once upon a life" by Athol Fugard, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

topic: Kids, Boys, Role Models

The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.

topic: School, Role Models, Laughing, Big Things

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Ties, Role Models

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

- Barry Williams

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Passion, Thinking, Role Models, Love Advice, Considerate

We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art

- BeBe Zahara Benet

topic: Art, Kings, Role Models

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

topic: Role Models, Needs, Roles

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?

- Benigno Aquino III

topic: Role Models, Parent, Mentor

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

- Benjamin Hooks

topic: Men, Role Models, Black, Cycle Of Poverty, Vicious Cycles

It's hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don't have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Children, Thinking, Role Models, Rosters, Perplexed

Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

source: "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

topic: Hands, Role Models, Identity, Male Role Models, Female Role Models

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Opportunity, Bad Ass, Role Models, Lost Youth, Stages Of Life

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

- Bianca Jagger

topic: Country, Philosophy, Role Models, Eastern Philosophy

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

topic: Role Models, Support, Roles, Support Women

I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Very Good, Good Role Models

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.

topic: Kids, Sneakers, Role Models

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Confidence, Role Models, Fans, Turner, Biggest Fan

Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.

- Brandi Chastain

source: "How She Does It: Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm". Interview with Abigail L. Cuffey, www.womansday.com. August 25, 2009.

topic: Kids, Exercise, Role Models, Making Good Choices, Good Choices

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.

- Brian J. White

topic: Role Models, Trying, Roles, Trailblazers

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

- Brian Michael Bendis

topic: Real, Role Models, Males, Male Role Models

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

topic: Role Models, Trying, Roles, Positive Role Model

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

topic: Inspiration, Role Models, Mold, Female Role Models

I understand that I'm a role model.

- Carnie Wilson

topic: Role Models, Roles, Models

Be your own source of strength and comfort. Believe that you are in love, happy, and fulfilled because you started by feeling that way about yourself, alone. Then the power of being together is amplified and you will experience the kind of joy that you can't begin to imagine. It starts within you and no one else.

topic: Believe, Role Models, Joy, Strength And Comfort, Being Together

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Men, People, Role Models

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

- Cathy Freeman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Role Models, Be Who You Are, Roles, Being A Role Model

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.

- Chelsea Clinton

source: "Stuff Me in a Suitcase: MSNBC's Wagner Aches to Be Adopted by the Clinton Family". www.newsbusters.org. June 14, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Role Models, Needs

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

topic: Kids, Thinking, Role Models

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

source: "Can Business Be Enlightened?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2010.

topic: Role Models, Community, Leader

I'm no role model; all I want to show is love.

- Christofer Drew

topic: Role Models, Roles, Want

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

topic: Believe, Role Models, Effort

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.

topic: Responsibility, America, Role Models

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

- Connor Ripley

topic: Book, Role Models, Roles, Body Image

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

- Corey Feldman

source: "Corey Feldman Exclusive Interview - LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2008.

topic: Children, Role Models, Roles, Positive Role Model

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

- Danica McKellar

topic: Years, Role Models, Parent

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

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Role Models, Trying, Roles

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.

- David Levithan

topic: Art, Role Models, Giving, Wilde

I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

topic: Girl, Issues, Role Models

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Kind

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.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Children, Character, Role Models

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Role Models, Needs, Roles

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

- Denise Van Outen

source: "How Denise van Outen lost weight". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 28, 2008.

topic: Girl, Thinking, Role Models

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

topic: Success, Winning, Role Models

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

topic: Fighting, Role Models, Example

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

- Dominique Wilkins

topic: Home, Thinking, Role Models, Male Role Models

Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

topic: People, Role Models, Important, Being A Role Model

By staying true to yourself, you keep your energy high and clear, and you provide inspirational role modeling for other healers and helpers. Integrity toward yourself is a gift to the world.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Integrity, Role Models, Roles, Helpers, Stay True To Yourself

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

- Duane Chapman

topic: Father, Role Models, Roles

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

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Children, Role Models, Needs

I did have role models, but most of them were male.

- Emily Robison

topic: Role Models, Males, Roles

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cancer, People, Role Models, Cancer Patients

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

topic: Confused, Princess, Role Models, Diana, Dori

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.

topic: Ideas, Role Models, Female, Colonels

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.

topic: Thinking, Volunteer, Role Models, Putting Yourself Out There, Charity Work

I've done things that can be made fun of. It's not such a bad thing. If I'm going to end up a role model, then I'd rather not end up being the kind of role model that pretends to be perfect, and pretends that she always has the right thing to say. I'm a product of role models that didn't make me feel like I was as good as them.

topic: Fun, Perfect, Role Models, Right Thing To Say

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

- Francesco Guicciardini

source: Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

topic: Cheer, Sight, Role Models

I would love to be a role model.

- Gabby Douglas

topic: Role Models, Roles, Models

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud....

source: Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.202, St. Martin's Press

topic: Children, Wings, Role Models, Mallards, Snail

I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.

- Giancarlo Esposito

topic: Successful, Accomplishment, Role Models, Lancaster, Sense Of Accomplishment

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.

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

source: "I Will Follow My Father's Footsteps... I Am Prepared". Interview with Nelly Sindayen, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2000.

topic: Father, Role Models, Roles

I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.

topic: Thinking, People, Role Models, Common Threads

I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads â€” fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.

topic: Running, Teacher, Role Models

Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.

- Howard Wilkinson

source: "Howard Wilkinson on Gary Speed: 'He leaves a huge, huge void'" by Howard Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

topic: Responsibility, Avid, Role Models, Blokes, Trust Worthy

But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.

source: "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

topic: Thinking, Years, Role Models

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Being True, Being A Role Model

Not every artist is a role model.

topic: Artist, Role Models, Roles

They need a role model. They need a star!

- Imelda Marcos

topic: Stars, Role Models, Needs

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

- Isaac Mizrahi

topic: Role Models, Roles, Models

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

- Isabella Rossellini

topic: Role Models, Roles, Want

Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

topic: Inspiration, Kids, Role Models

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

- Jack Canfield

topic: Successful, Role Models, Roles

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

topic: Role Models, Comedian, Roles

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,

topic: Athlete, People, Role Models

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Wells

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

- Jamie Campbell Bower

topic: Role Models, Fans, Roles

I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.

- Janel Parrish

topic: Girl, Role Models, Roles, Being A Role Model

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

- Jeffrey Kluger

source: Jeffrey Kluger (2011). “The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us”, p.8, Penguin

topic: Brother, Role Models, Roles, Cautionary Tales

I'm a role model for lots of young girls.

topic: Girl, Role Models, Roles

I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.

- Jennifer Aniston

topic: Children, Role Models, Roles

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

topic: Role Models, Community, Asian, Asian American, Representatives

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

topic: America, Role Models, Roles, Reformers

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

topic: Opposites, Role Models, Roles

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

- Jonathan Ames

topic: Beautiful, Book, Role Models

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

- Jonathan Brandis

topic: Thinking, People, Role Models

Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

- Jonathan Haidt

topic: Track, Role Models, Brain

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

topic: Role Models, Black, Nerd

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

- Jordyn Wieber

source: "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". SELF interview, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.

topic: Girl, Role Models, Roles, Swear Word

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.

- Josh McDowell

topic: Family, Role Models, Parent, Inspirational Family Love, Genuine Love

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

- Kathleen Hanna

topic: Role Models, Musician, Roles

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Role Models, Watches, Roles, Being A Role Model

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

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Role Models, Female, Roles, Female Role Models, Female Roles

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

topic: Growing Up, Role Models, Roles, Amelia, Nancy Drew

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Role Models, Perfect, Roles

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.

topic: Wise, Role Models, Long

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

topic: Role Models, Needs, Roles, Positive Role Model

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

- Kim Kardashian

source: "Exclusive! Kim Kardashian West on Baby No. 2, Her New Style, and Life in the Spotlight". Interview with Alex Morris, www.glamour.com. June 1, 2015.

topic: Thinking, Role Models, Trying

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Opportunity, Role Models, Roles, Positive Role Model

I take being a role model seriously.

- LaDainian Tomlinson

topic: Nfl, Role Models, Roles, Being A Role Model

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.

topic: Book, Role Models, Roles, Good Role Models

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

topic: Trust No One, Role Models, Roles, Good Role Models

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

topic: Gay, Role Models, Roles

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

topic: People, Role Models, Roles, Happy People

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

- Lauren Hutton

topic: Role Models, Roles, Genes

It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

- Lauren Potter

source: "Actors with Down syndrome in more films, TV; 'Glee' star Lauren Potter says 'we're just like anybody else'" by Danielle Jones-Wesley, www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2012.

topic: People, Role Models, Roles

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

topic: Children, Role Models, Parent, Male Role Models, Being A Role Model

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

topic: Kids, Role Models, Needs

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, People, Role Models

Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I'd ever imagine myself dressing. I understand that I'm a role model, though, and I have to look out for that. I have a 10-year-old sister, too. But you also want to be appealing to guys and stuff, that's just something girls feel. It's hard. You want to be that girl that's unattainable to all the guys because there are so many other girls out there that are like that.

- Lindsay Lohan

topic: Girl, Years, Role Models, That Girl, Other Girl

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

- Lindsay Wagner

topic: Girl, Role Models, Age

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

- Louis Tomlinson

topic: Thinking, Role Models, Immature

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

- Louise Bourgeois

source: "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

topic: Girl, Mother, Role Models, Bourgeois

At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

source: "Is it a bird?". The Sunday Times, July 27, 1997.

topic: Role Models, Female, Roles, Female Role Models, Female Roles

My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.

- M. Russell Ballard

topic: Mother, Heart, Role Models

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

- Madeleine Albright

topic: Princess, Warrior, Role Models

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

topic: Home, Role Models, Southern, Southern Women, Female Role Models

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

topic: Kids, People, Role Models, Popeye, Spinach

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

- Marian Wright Edelman

topic: Caring, Role Models, African American

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

- Mario Balotelli

topic: Children, Responsibility, Role Models

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

- Mariska Hargitay

topic: Winning, Awards, Role Models

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.

topic: Children, Cities, Role Models, Inner City, Positive Role Model

I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!

- Marlen Esparza

topic: Country, Games, Role Models

... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

- Mary Church Terrell

source: Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

topic: Ambition, Race, Role Models, Lack Of Ambition

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

- Mary Parker Follett

topic: Role Models, Comfort, Lovers, Unifying

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.

topic: Role Models, Cheerful, Roles, Courteous, Diligent

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

topic: Kids, Role Models, People, Positive Role Model

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

topic: Thinking, Light, Role Models

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

topic: Role Models, People, Roles

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

- Michael Bassey

topic: Role Models, People, Quality

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

- Michael Greger

topic: Caring, Compassion, Role Models, Compassion And Empathy

I never thought a role model should be negative.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Role Models, Negative, Being A Role Model, Nba Player

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Gay, Past, Role Models

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

topic: Idols, Role Models, Wish

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

topic: Mom, Mother, Role Models

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

topic: Role Models, Decision, Roles

Hilary Duff has been my role model forever. I went to her concert like right when her music started coming out when I was probably like 11. I was just amazed by her. So now, to be compared to her, it's like...holy moly. It's so cool!

topic: Role Models, Forever, Roles

I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age, she hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.

topic: Role Models, Age, Done

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

source: "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

topic: Role Models, Trying, Roles

I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.

topic: Girl, Role Models, Healthy, Good Role Models

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

- Miranda Lambert

topic: Animal, Role Models, Female, Amazing Music, Miranda

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

topic: Role Models, Long, Entrepreneur

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

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: Growing Up, Good Life, Role Models

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

- Natalia Kills

source: "Natalia Kills: Pop's Axe-Wielding Heroine". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.elle.com. May 27, 2011.

topic: Opposites, Role Models, Roles

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

- Natalie Gulbis

topic: Opportunity, Play, Role Models

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

- Natalie Portman

topic: Role Models, Roles, Feels, Positive Role Model

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

topic: Role Models, Choices, Age, Inbreds, Howard Roark

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

- Patricia Hill Collins

topic: Educational, Practice, Role Models

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

source: Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

topic: Mom, Mother, Role Models

But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

- Peggy Orenstein

topic: Fall, Role Models, Female, Female Role Models, Female Roles

You cannot force commitment, what you can doâ€¦You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.Â Your primary influence is the environment you create.

topic: Commitment, Role Models, Inspire, Nudge, Learning Organization

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

topic: Shoes, Role Models, Leader, Deliberation

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Bucks, Godot

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Role Models, Progress, Roles

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

topic: Thinking, Role Models, Roles

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

- Pranab Mukherjee

topic: Our Generation, Role Models, Personality, Nehru

Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be

topic: Years, Role Models, Today

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

topic: Queens, Hero, Role Models, Gangnam Style

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

- Queen Rania of Jordan

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Role Models, People, Wish, Social Worker

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

topic: Role Models, People, Roles

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

topic: Powerful, Keys, Role Models, Being A Role Model, Belief In Self

You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important

- Regina Agyare

topic: Role Models, Important, Roles

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

- Reverend Malcolm Boyd

topic: Jesus, Role Models, Example, Orientation

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Feels

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

topic: Role Models, People, Weight

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

- Ricki-Lee Coulter

topic: Sexy, Strong, Role Models, Good Role Models

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

- Robbie Williams

topic: Kids, Role Models, Want, Good Role Models

The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.

- Robert Sherrill

topic: God, Christian, Role Models, Good Role Models

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

- Rupert Everett

topic: Kids, Thinking, Role Models

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

topic: Role Models, Roles, Youth, Impressionable

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.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Purpose

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

- Sarah Michelle Gellar

topic: Strong, Character, Role Models, Strong Female, Female Role Models

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

- Scotty McCreery

source: "Scotty McCreery Talks Fans, Faith & Post-'Idol' Fame". Interview with Beville Dunkerley, theboot.com. June 15, 2011.

topic: Idols, Role Models, Perfect, Mr Perfect

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

topic: Eye, Role Models, Important

My role model is my dad.

- Sean William Scott

topic: Dad, Role Models, Roles

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

topic: Jobs, Who I Am, Role Models

It's overwhelming ... to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that's a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I'll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.

topic: Kids, Responsibility, Role Models, Big Responsibility

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

source: Rare "Selena Live" Interview, 1993.

topic: Role Models, Roles, Models

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

- Shannen Doherty

topic: Thinking, Role Models, Roles

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

- Shirley Manson

topic: Idols, Role Models, Musical, Being A Role Model

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.

- Sidney Altman

topic: Growing Up, Boys, Role Models

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

- Sophie Ellis Bextor

topic: Role Models, Childhood, Parent, Happy Childhood, Good Role Models

I know I touch a lot of people. I don't call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders

- Spoken Reasons

topic: Team, Role Models, People

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

- Stephen Bayley

topic: Role Models, Getting Older, Roles

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

- Stephen Collins

topic: Airports, Role Models, Eric, Camden

Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

- Sunidhi Chauhan

topic: Mother, Strong Women, Role Models, Good Mother, Beyonce

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