Quotes About Role models

I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.

I was that little kid: I was the one that was looking up to athletes and getting to see them and getting to be a part of it, and I remember those experiences.

My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

To be quite honest, my fans growing up were my friends' parents. Like, 30-plus was, like, 'Mad Men' age group.

I want the kids that think the Kardashians are amazing to think that going out there and actually making a difference in your world is just as amazing.

When I started, there were very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like, when I looked up, I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

Abusiveness is not a product of a man's emotional injuries or of deficits in his skills. In reality, abuse springs from a man's early cultural training, his key male role models, and his peer influences.

My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.

In order to understand how a man receives a wound, you must understand the central truth of a boy's journey to manhood: Masculinity is bestowed. A boy learns who he is and what he's got from a man, or the company of men. He cannot learn it any other place. He cannot learn it from other boys, and he cannot learn it from the world of women.

was she following her parents' examples?

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.

Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

It's hard to become what you don't see.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

That esteem for educators appears to be even higher among Generation Next, those born from 1981 to 1988, who are twice as likely as older generations to name a teacher or mentor when asked to list people they admire.