Top 1200 Good Role Models Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers.

Thinking I'd be in politics just wasn't something I'd thought of as a younger woman. There just weren't a lot of role models there.

Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

My biggest role models are not chefs, but women like Coco Chanel, Simone de Beauvoir, Nina Simone.

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

I think we, as a fasion industry, need to hold people accountable for their actions. I want people to realize that models have a voice, and a powerful one at that. I want all models to be treated with more respect because that's what we all want - basic respect and to not be treated like objects with no will. I hope that models can be more empowered to say 'no' or give their opinion without being labeled as difficult. Modeling should be a collaboration. If the makeup artist, photographer and stylist all contribute, why can't models?

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

I'm only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I've sort of experienced... my sister has always been my role-model because I've always seen her. She's been acting my whole life and she's grown up on film, so it's neat for me to get to travel around and do interviews, because I've always seen her doing it.

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

I wouldn't say there's a need for the Spice Girls, but I'd say there's a place for the Spice Girls. There's certainly a place for them, but you don't promote the Spice Girls at the expense of promoting what I think are good role models for girls. You need to create some kind of equality.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

I never really had role models or guys in the NBA to show me the ropes or be a friend, mentor to me like that.

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

The victory in the 1992 World Cup changed Pakistan cricket. A number of cricketers from that side turned out to be role models and inspiration for the younger generation.

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

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

...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

I believe women need to hear stories and see images that they can identify with, not media-fabricated ideals that even the 'role models' themselves can't live up to.

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.

It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

When you look at role models, you tend to look at players who have played at the highest level, your Viv Andersons and so on.

As educated girls become women, they can transform local communities and act as role models for younger girls.

I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport. That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen and what do you do? Do you crumble with your life or do you go forward?

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.

When women are provided with training and entrepreneurial opportunities in distribution networks, they become role models in their communities, showing it is possible to challenge limiting norms and stereotypes, and to succeed.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

My father was in and out of jail throughout my childhood. He really wasn't in my life at all. Thankfully, I had two strong role models who guided me through those years.

Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me prepare to be the best coach possible. Fortunately, the coaches I had as a player were good men and were excellent role models in setting priorities and relating to the team members and coaching staff.

Not all of us are born with the same role models and grasp things the same way.

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

My dad is a judge, but he started off as an attorney. He is one of my biggest role models; both of my parents are. So, from a young age, I said I wanted to be an attorney.

My role models weren't holding steering wheels and mashing gears on Sunday. They wore burgundy and gold with names like Art Monk and Darrell Green.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.

Women sportspersons like Krishna Poonia and Seema Antil are role models for Haryanvi women.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

Growing up, I didn't have any role models that were sick that were doing anything with their life, ever.

I don't know if I ever really think about being a role model. But I guess if you're in the public eye and people are looking at what you do, you do want to be a good role model, and you want to kind of be seen in a good light.