Quotes About Role models

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.

I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow.

I grew up with two cousins from North Dakota who were junior national champions. They're a lot older than me and I looked up to them as my older brothers.

The Obamas have been a great example for the country, and I think people are getting a bit nostalgic for that now when they see what some of the alternatives might be.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicated by my daughters' and my crush on Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman now.

Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

Now other women know they, too, can make it, and not because I or anyone else tells them. they know because they have seen it happen.

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be.

we can learn only from our "betters." We must know who they are and how to learn from them.

The question for the child is not, `Do I want to be good?"' Bettelheim writes, "but Who do I want to be like?

Bruce Lee was the guy you worshipped. Older Brother was the guy you dreamt of growing up to be.

I finally realized that I was being unrealistic. I could never be like my heroes. They all had something I didn't. A Y-chromosome.

By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves. . . . We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. —CHARLES V. WILLIE3

The opposite of racism is antiracism, of course, or what we might call racial idealism or equalitarianism, and it is still not clear whether it will prevail. In this struggle, our history textbooks offer little help. Just as they underplay white racism, they also neglect racial idealism. In doing so, they deprive students of potential role models to call upon as they try to bridge the new fault lines that will spread out in the future from the great rift in our past.

Since the beginning of time, we have expected our leaders to be supermen, unlike mere mortals. We want them to be much greater than us so that we can look up to them.

An unlikely source of inspiration? My nieces and nephews. I feel encouraged to keep going because I know that if I keep going, then I can tell them to keep going.

I modeled myself after Deborah Kerr for her romantic, untouched quality; Ingrid Bergman for her strength; and Kay Kendall for her wonderful sense of humor.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.