Quotes About Role models

Professional sportspersons are role models, recognized and they have a responsibility. Having said that, everyone makes mistakes and one needs to move on and learn from them.

Growing up, Missy Elliot and Janet Jackson were definitely major references.

I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.

It's hard to be what you can't see.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Our athletes are our heroes.

My heroes were people like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

I had both male and female heroes.

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

I've patterned myself after my musical heroes.

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

Happily, I had lots of childhood heroes.

As was shown in 'Soorma,' for me, my father and brother have been my heroes.