Role Model Quotes

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates -- whether husbands, children or merely role models. - Elizabeth Dole

Women athletes have the ability to serve as role models for women and girls throughout the world. I am excited to attend the World Economic Forum to explore ways in which the global community can continue to support athletes? ability to help create positive social change. - Monica Seles

Which opens Friday. ''I have people telling me I'm a role model. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. Don't turn a 20-year-old into a role model because we're going to make mistakes. How could you not? You'd be a freak if you didn't. - Keira Knightley

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else. - Brooks Robinson

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her. - Sarah Michelle Gellar

When youre in the public eye, youre a role model whether you want to be or not, and I want to be. Im not one of those self-obsessed artists who dont care about their fans. Its not just about the music. I look out into the O2 and there are 18,000 screaming young people and I have a responsibility to them and youre an idiot if you dont know that. - Lady Gaga

When you surround someone with positive role models, they know that they're not journeying by themselves. We found that if someone has a circle of support, they're less likely to go back inside. - Barbara McKinney

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them. - Unknown

When I was an undergraduate 30 years ago, the only role model was to become an academic like the people teaching us. - Michael Kelly