Quotes About Role models

When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.

I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.

The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

My peers are my role models, and my role models are my peers. Which is extraordinary.

But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

We can all look to our friends, family, and those we admire for inspiration.

When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.

I looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.

We are seeing how people we have looked up to and were inspired by in our work have suddenly just gone because there are such serious allegations against them. I really don't know why it is not happening here.

The inspiration that the Four Horsewomen were for me and think that I'm an inspiration for other women that are coming behind me is an amazing feeling.

Apart from family I really admire A.R. Rahman and Sachin Tendulakr.

As kids, we want to ape our parents.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Take advice only from those you hope to be like.

it's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

It's funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don't feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who's doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it's more possible.

Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh Jackman. I love everything that these guys are doing. It's kind of been my mission to be an Asian-American version of that.

I didn't have a whole lot of role models to say, 'This much is possible, versus this much.' So I finally said, 'I think I'd like to be a mayor. I'd like to pull together a city and help do good things.'

I am proud to be their child. It is very inspiring for me. I am inspired by my mom and dad.

To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.

I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn't know what it was.

I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them.