Quotes about Role models
No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.
— John Wooden
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
— Michelle Obama
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould
— Oswald Chambers
The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and "the lilies of the field"—simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.
— Oswald Chambers
They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.
— Lisa Wingate
No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.
— John Maxwell
People need your influence, but it will not come through 'lip syncing' those you admire.
— John Maxwell
To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.
— Jack Canfield
In order to understand how a man receives a wound, you must understand the central truth of a boy's journey to manhood: Masculinity is bestowed. A boy learns who he is and what he's got from a man, or the company of men. He cannot learn it any other place. He cannot learn it from other boys, and he cannot learn it from the world of women.
— John Eldredge
Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.
— Gloria Steinem
I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Respect! I believe young people are quick enough to observe and imitate; and why or how should they respect whom no one else respects, and everybody slights?
— Charles Dickens