Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn't really prepared to be one, but it's always something that I've taken very seriously.

Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

Young people need models, not critics.

I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.

A high-profile player has to toe the line and I try to lead by example. A lot of guys appreciate that, and it is an advantage to have somebody as captain whom the players feel they can look up to; somebody whose door they can knock on to talk about anything on cricket or life.

I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try.

I've tried my best to be a good role model for my two younger sisters.

When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in your job, should you?

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

Being a role model is a privilege.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.