Quotes About Role models

You know you're on the right path when you look around and see people you want to be like!

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.

Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.

The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on!