"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."
- Lana Del Rey
"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?"
- Stephen Colbert
"If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked."
- George Carlin
"If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity ."
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
"Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if ..."
- Alexandre Dumas
"There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within."
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes"
- Bertolt Brecht
"Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"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."
- John Wooden
"Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes."
- Liza M. Wiemer