Role Models Quotes - Page 30

• Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.

  Ashley Graham

  Basketball, Impact, Games

  Source: awesomesportsproject.com

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• My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Dad, Father

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Oprah played a big role in my understanding of what it meant to be female and to really step into your own power. I wouldn't even call her a role model; she was literally a reference point. You have the dictionary, you have the Bible, you have Oprah.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Understanding, Roles, Steps

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Alexander Povetkin

  People, Important, Roles

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, Long, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Steve Harvey

  Teacher, Men, Hip Hop

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• A lot of times we expect people who get money and fame to suddenly become this "role model" or this "icon." That ain't how it works. Money and fame - all it does it just allows you to be more of who you really are.

  Steve Harvey

  Icons, People, Doe

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  Talib Kweli

  Teacher, Eye, Thinking

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• I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

  Gilda Radner

  Dog, Unconditional Love, Animal

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.

  Gerry Spence

  Children, Wings, Parent

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.202, St. Martin's Press

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• Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

  John Waters

  Opposites, Roles, Yearning

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Children

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• Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

  Denis Waitley

  Children, Character, Roles

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• I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, I want to be true to myself. I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man.

  Orlando Cruz

  Sports, Kids, Gay

  "Orlando Cruz becomes boxing's first openly gay man" by Bob Velin, www.usatoday.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Confused, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Family, Racism, Parent

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.47, Beacon Press

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• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

  Epictetus

  Character, Follow Your Heart, Personality

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• Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Rocks, Important

  Barack Obama's Father's Day remarks at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2008.

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• Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Children, Responsibility, Parenting

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• What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smart, Addiction, Vision

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• Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

  Maya Angelou

  Cheerful, Roles, Kind

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• Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

  Paul Rudd

  Congratulations, Stupid, Mean

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• But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

  Judy Woodruff

  Beautiful, Mother, Daughter

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• The world needs role models, instead of critics.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Integrity, Needs

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• Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

  Mindy Kaling

  Trying, Roles, Should

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

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