34 Role Model Quotes for Personal and Professional Growth

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Find here the list of best quotes on role model if you are following someone as your role model.

A role model is a person who attracts people towards himself through his success, or his attitude. Young people mostly have role models, who are from different fields like sports, cinema, politics, etc.

There are two types of role models. One is the positive role model who influences people with their positive qualities, and the other is the negative role model who influences people with their harmful attitude.

If you are following someone, accept only the good things from them. In this article, we have brought some motivational quotes about role model which will help you to know about the role model more. After reading this you have to decide whether you should follow someone or not. So, let’s read those role model quotes.

Best Learning Quotes about role models

1. “Role models are only of limited use. For no one is as important, potentially powerful, and as key in your life and world like you.” Rasheed Ogunlaru

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

2. “I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.” ― Meryl Streep

3. “I do not feel that we should set up people as “models”; rather actions, thoughts, principles.” ― Noam Chomsky

4. “You’re a role model. Act like one.” Frank Sonnenberg

5. “People who look up to you watch every move that you make — so don’t let them down.” ― Frank Sonnenberg

6. “Exemplary role models believe in the power of good — not what’s good for them but rather, what’s good for others.” ― Frank Sonnenberg

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

7. “All the role models are being exposed and this is good because role models are shit. The quicker we exposed them the better. The whole concept of role models is frightful! You gotta make your own role.” ― William S. Burroughs

8. “If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both fucked.” ― George Carlin

9. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ― James Baldwin

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

10. “Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.” ― Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Being a role model quotes

11. “When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.” Joseph Campbell

12. “If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.” ― Leonard Sax

13. “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.” ― John Wooden

14. “People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

15. “Always do your best in whatever you do; set goals and seek challenges; become a role model for those coming behind you, and always have God in your heart.” ― Charles F. Bolden

16. “The problem with role models is they teach you roles.” ― Joe Hill

17. “If you have an influence on other people. Don’t be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger, and popularity.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos

18. “People can poison people, people can also promote people. People can push people up, people can also pull people down. Don’t just follow people cheerfully; follow people carefully!” Israelmore Ayivor

19. “Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

Inspiring Role Model Quotes

20. “Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

21. “The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

22. “A role model should be like the light at the end of a tunnel, guiding you when you are lost.” ― Cristina Imre

23. “So set your goals, know your worth, and hold on to the people who care about you. Those people can be your foundation when your life is shaky. They can be role models when you aren’t sure how to act. They can be the family you choose when you miss the family you lost.” ― Elizabeth Sutherland

24. “Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

25. “Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.” ― Lana Del Rey

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

26. “Most of those who look down on people who sell their bodies look up to some of those who sell their souls.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

27. “My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.” ― Onyi Anyado

28. “Let’s make our role model famous, instead of making famous people our role model.” ― Sandhya Jane

29. “Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect but for respect from others.” ― Barry Bonds

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

30. “I don’t think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.” ― Barry Williams

31. “If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.” ― Tiger Woods

32. “I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.” ― Denzel Washington

Motivational role model quotes to accept only the good things

33. “Being a role model means you can stand up and fight for things.” ― Heart Evangelista

34. “I want to be a role model, I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.” ― Laurie Hernandez

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