Quotes About Role models

From building robots and video games to coding apps that solve a problem in your community, or 3D printing in fashion tech, it is important that we explore different ways to engage girls in STEAM and also ensure that there are many, and different, women role models that will inspire our girls to pursue STEAM careers.

You see all the greats, people who were idols of mine growing up. You see those guys on the cover of video games.

They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

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

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

Take advice from people who are where you want to be.

Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance

A girl's sense of her womanly self depends only in part on how closely she has followed her mother's example in attire and actions, or how much she loves or hates or respects her. It is from both parents that a girl gains her basic identity.

Crianças precisam de orientação e roteiros morais, beneficiando-se imensamente com o exemplo de adultos que falam a verdade e agem com força moral.

The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.

Norman Bates was happy just dressing up like his mother and stabbing people," Chief Porter said, "but Hannibal Lecter has to cut off their faces and eat their livers with fava beans. The role models have become more intense.

I know when I was 9 and 10, I was watching films way beyond that age group, and it's what kids aspire to.

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

There are so many kids in Africa who adore these athletes in the NBA and see themselves in them, even though we're so far removed.

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

I always liked watching Ronaldo and Ronaldinho; they were the players who I dreamt about meeting. They inspired me a lot in my own style of play.

When I was growing up, I drew my favorite basketball players.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

We have a lot of black British men who are killing it: John Boyega, Stormzy, Anthony Joshua, Tinie Tempah, and Idris Elba, of course. I see them as people I really admire and that's empowering for me because it means I am not alone in this.

And I would really like to encourage First Nations youth to be leaders in their communities.

I hold my parents in such high esteem for what they do, so that, in and of itself, is a very lucky position to be in.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous