Quotes About Role-model

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.

I don't want people to follow Scarface. I want people to follow Brad Jordan, man.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them," Jim said later. "They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Everybody does it." No, not everybody does it; conscience and social responsibility are still alive if not too well in America. But the dramatic transformation of Sammy Glick from the antihero of the forties to the role-model hero for the Yuppies of the eighties is a painful reminder of the moral breakdown we are suffering without even seeming to realize that suffering is involved.

Many young people come to me and tell me that 'You inspire us with the way you perform, even if you are a girl with a short height.'

I don't ever want young women to look at me and feel any kind of pressure to look or dress like me.

Only younger brothers will understand me. We're following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

If people want me to be their role-model, it would be nice.

Be the inspiration you want to see in others

I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I was always taught that no matter where you are, you leave your fingerprints on that city and an impression on children and parents. That's what kind of drives me, to see the kids look up to you and want to be like you - just be something special.

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.

My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.

You don't need too much to have an agenda of how to father. You just have to be a good person. The interactions at home between you and your spouse and the way you deal with your kids in certain situations, that's what they take.

I had this extraordinary role-model of rags to riches success in my grandfather and yet I was a girl, and girls in a very military family were not meant to have professional careers. I think that created the spur and edge to drive me on.

It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

If I'll never know how much this was my path because of fate and how much because I willed it, the question is less important than that I made it across. Now other women know they, too, can make it, and not because I or anyone else tells them. They know because they've seen it happen.