Quotes about Role models

Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them.

Young people need models, not critics...

You can talk about right and wrong and good and bad all day long, but ultimately people need to see it. Seeing and studying the actual lives of people is simply the best way to communicate ideas about how to behave and how not to behave. We need heroes and role models.

The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

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

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.