Being A Role Model Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Powerful, Father

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• Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

  John Wooden

  Powerful, Role Models, Roles

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.5, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.5, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• To me, I don't think it does anybody any good to just hide something or cover it up or lie or whatever. I think ... that's what being a role model is all about. It's not about being perfect. It's about speaking about your issues and inspiring others to get help.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Athlete

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• Being a role model is a privilege.

  Allyson Felix

  Role Models, Roles, Privilege

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• No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

  Shirley Manson

  Idols, Role Models, Musical

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• I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

  Cathy Freeman

  Role Models, Be Who You Are, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• Each person must live their life as a model for others.

  Rosa Parks

  Life, Morning, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."

  Tim Foley

  Teacher, Names, People

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• 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

  Mistake, Inspiration, People

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• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I think you have to embrace being a role model because you are in the public eye, and whether you like it or not, people are going to be affected by you positively or negatively, ... Public-wise, I really wouldnt do anything that would be detrimental to anybody else or to myself. And to a certain extent, I try to watch out and try not to do anything that would be bad for kids to see.

  Amanda Bynes

  Wise, Kids, Eye

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• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  Idina Menzel

  Role Models, Roles, Being True

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• Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

  Kel Mitchell

  Role Models, Watches, Roles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

  Gigi Hadid

  Role Models, Roles, Preaching

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

  Donn Moomaw

  People, Role Models, Important

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• 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

  Positive, Thinking, Light

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• In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

  Victoria Pratt

  Girl, Role Models, Mind

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• I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

  Kristen Stewart

  Role Models, Choices, Roles

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• I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

  Alice Walker

  Unique, Self, Role Models

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.

  Doreen Virtue

  Pain, Role Models, Peaceful

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