Quotes About Role models

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we've grown up around it.

I have a great work ethic because I've watched my parents work super hard.

I don't know why all three, my comedic idols are... women.

My father was in and out of jail throughout my childhood. He really wasn't in my life at all. Thankfully, I had two strong role models who guided me through those years.

I grew up watching Kobe and all these other dudes, but I was in love with that Oklahoma City Thunder team with James Harden, Russell Westbrook, and Kevin Durant.

I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.

I grew up in business at a time where there weren't very many female role models, and so in the early days, we wore little bow ties like the guys, and we talked about the Army even though we weren't in the Army. And the reality was that wasn't the right way to approach the business world.

women often find their decisions and setbacks scrutinised through the role model lens. This can become a source of shame and guilt, whilst also setting women against eachother.The burden is particularly intense for minority women, who are often expected to carry the aspirations of not only other women, but their entire ethnicor racial group on their shoulders. - doesn't do women any favours.

You can't be what you can't see.

In the absence of role models for the new feminine in our culture, the Goddess speaks through dreams and creative imagination, giving guidance to those who chose to listen.

We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.

My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I would say Hugh Jackman.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

Young people need models, not critics...

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.

I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

I can only speak from experience, but as a little kid I remember Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes, Dawn Staley and Cynthia Cooper. I remember the mainstream media being involved and how much exposure they received.

Cris Carter and Randy Moss - they're the guys who made me want to play football and be a receiver.

Empowering girls is extremely important to me because, growing up, I needed those empowering women to show me the way. When my parents divorced when I was 11, my mom was a force to be reckoned with. She showed me how to be self-sufficient and independent.

It's important for moms, but also dads, to recognize that they're role models when it comes to their kids' physical health, when it comes to working out, and when it comes to nutrition.

Over the years, I think, more and more, I've come to recognize that my parents - not in a didactic or explicit way, but in a very powerful way by their example - gave me a sense that government could be a force for good.