Quotes About Role models

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.

The ability to act as a role model shouldn't depend on owning a pile of trophies. Instead, we should look at role models as whole people - people who fail but overcome adversity, people who inspire us both on and off the course, people who spend their time trying to make their community a better place.

I remember how inspiring it was to meet players like Bobby Charlton or Bryan Robson when I was a kid. I still remember Clive Allen showing up when I received a trophy for my Sunday league team.

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble.

You can't just look like one culture and expect to inspire a multitude of people. That doesn't work over time. Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

I truly admire President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.

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

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

Before moving to America, I did not see the world through a "Black" lens...We had doctors, teachers, wealthy men. Indeed, we had successful men of all stripes. We did not have Black doctors, Black businessmen, or any so-called role models. We had people doing things we children knew we could just as easily do when we grew up.

The stories of my heroes provided me with MUCH better things to think about. Important things, meaningful things, real things that mattered and didn't depend on ratings. Learning about them, reading their words made me want to be a better person.

My heroes were always soccer players.

I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.

I admired and wanted to be a lot like Angie Martinez. As I got older, I realized that I had a soft monotone voice and that being a DJ may not be the career for me. However, I was so in love and infatuated with hip-hop that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.

I've met some incredible people who I really admire.