Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Unfortunately, we don’t have all that many good examples to follow. The people that our cultures label as “successful” are the ones who have become wealthy or famous or celebrities, but the truly successful people–those...

If your kid needs a role model and you ain’t it, you’re both fucked.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

“acceptable” as my heroes if you will, because they didn’t want me being influenced by athletes who lacked morals. Cal Ripken and Dale Murphy were at the top of my mom’s list of players she...

The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.

Polar north can’t get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

Even though we don’t admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard’s lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but...

We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one...

People can poison people; people can also promote people. People can push people up; people can also pull people down. Don’t just follow people cheerfully; follow people carefully!

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

He said, I won’t have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she’d...

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher...

Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.

Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather...

I want an Oompa-Loompa!’ screamed Veruca.

Always do your best in whatever you do; set goals and seek challenges; become a role model for those coming behind you; and always have God in your heart.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

We wish we could have been there for you. We didn’t have many role models of our own–we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because...

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as...

When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you’ve sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, “You Chinese dog,” before getting his ass kicked, it...

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels – people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up

My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.