Quotes About Role-models

It's like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We're just trying to follow in someone's footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

He's just my brother now and not my hero. I will not try to be like him. So, then who am I supposed to be like?

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?

The most important thing parents can do for their children, it is said, is love each other.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

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....

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

It's deep in human nature to look to the top to define our own behavior,

Much of what we learn about eating comes from the way our parents feed us.

Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the things you do, Children will see. And learn. Children may not obey But children will listen. Children will look to you For which way to turn, To learn what to be. Careful before you say, Listen to me. Children will listen.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.

My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!

Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.

What we are teaches the child more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.