Role Models Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old role models quotes, role models sayings, and role models proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
Simply be the qualities you seek in others. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
What you teach your own children is what you really believe in. Cathy Warner Weatherford
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame Baltasar Gracian
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves Tyron Edwards
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. Ann Richards
If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
One does not become a guru by accident. James Fenton
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willling to be judged. Frederick Smith
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. Confucius
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. Warren Bennis
Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. Britney Spears
I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way. M.C. Hammer
To achieve your goal you have to get into the character of a winner. Confident people have a certain way of presenting themselves. Observe people who are confident and successful and try to emulate them in your life. Dr Anil Kr Sinha
Be someone's inspiration before you have the chance to be, inspire the change in someone that will inspire more change in the world. Anurag Prakash Ray
Be Honest when you are with your kids, because you see your past in their eyes and they see their future in yours. Nishan Panwar
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
If God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. Jeanette Winterson
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to. Andrew Shue
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture. I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. Sting
Blessed is he who carries within himself a god and an ideal and who obeys ft - an ideal of art of science, or gospel virtues Therein ie the springs of great thoughts and great Taking Actions. Louis Pasteur
Example is the best precept. Aesop
He preaches well who lives well. Miguel de Cervantes
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. Peter F. Drucker
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves. Tryon Edwards