Quotes About Role models

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

I was lucky to have a bunch of really strong female role models in my family.

I just feel like people need role models, you know, that are dressed.

What our children are missing today are good role models.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.

I never really thought about the fact that there weren't female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong.

Golf, to its foundation, is a game of integrity and one that encourages us to give back, kind of be ambassadors, role models, I guess, for kids - whether they like golf or not.

I believe women need to hear stories and see images that they can identify with, not media-fabricated ideals that even the 'role models' themselves can't live up to.

People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.

'A New Model' is saying that women should be confident in who they are and that they can be their own role models.

Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.

I don't think that there are many, many strong, black male role models who provide a certain kind of really American, Southern-based comfort that Madea grows out of. She's a signpost in our Obama world of traditional Christian values.

From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.