Quotes About Role models

It is annoying that some people only see black women as role models to other black women, rather than as role models to lots of different people.

We never made attempts to say we were anybody's role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.

When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.

The lack of role models at the top means women can't look up and see an image of themselves as easily as men can. And there is still discrimination.

My friends... feel there are not that many people they can really look up to. They feel people are so hypocritical and fake... But I do have some people I respect, a great number of people, and I'm sure my friends have.

I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.

The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school.

We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America's leading tech companies, leading the path for other women.

It's critical for girls to see role models like myself that are in technical fields. Looking for ways to come in as speakers or do a career day, or just find a way to connect with students or invite students to their workplaces to shadow them for the day... is critically important.

The guys love us - they think we're sexy - but the girls take us seriously... I've always said that when I was a teenager growing up, I wish I had girls like Salt-n-Pepa to look up to. If I'd had someone I could relate to, a lot of things would probably be different.

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

When I grew up, I never saw anyone looking like me on TV, you know? I'm so glad to see a lot more of us on television, whether it's Mindy Kaling or it's Irrfan Khan or Freida Pinto. You know, I hope, like, little girls across the world can just look at me and say, 'Ah, I want to be that!' Indian or not, it shouldn't matter.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

I think, very often, little girls look at these teen television shows and think, 'I have to have a boyfriend because Blair Waldorf has a boyfriend, and she's always fighting over boys!'

Growing up, I had my mom to look up to; J. Lo and Marilyn Monroe were notable curvy women. But I didn't have anyone with cellulite or back fat telling me they didn't care.

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

fathers' flaws and weaknesses. They knew they weren't heroes

We seldom see these things in ourselves until we have a reason to look. We are probably all like the heroes we had when we were boys.

Often, a bad example teaches us more about who we wish to become than a good one could ever provide.

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