Male Role Models Quotes

• The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

  Kevin Powers

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

  Lee Haney

  Children, Role Models, Parent

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• Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

  Beth Ditto

  Hands, Female Role Models, Identity

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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

  Dominique Wilkins

  Home, Thinking, Role Models

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• Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

  Donald Miller

  Men, Role Models, Males

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 10, 2010.

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• Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Growing Up, Father, Home

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• I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.

  Donald Miller

  Growing Up, Dad, Kids

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• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  Bailey Chase

  Mom, Growing Up, Home

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• We have to have positive male role models.

  Donald Miller

  Role Models, Males, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.

  Donald Miller

  Country, Role Models, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To me, my Dad's the greatest guy - next to Jesus Christ - who ever walked this planet. He's been that outstanding male role model in my life. And he's still the same guy I grew up around, very conscious of the image he sets forth. As he would say, 'Wouldn't do anything behind your back that I wouldn't do to your face.'

  Aaron Tippin

  Jesus, Dad, Role Models

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• For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.

  Kristina Schroder

  Son, Men, Role Models

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• I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Real, Role Models, Males

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.

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• Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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