Misty Copeland Quotes

We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.

I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.

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.

I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

I am inspired by many young women, not only in my industry but across others.

I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.

I have no issue with my boys looking up to women.

It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

I've been really humbled by other women who've reached out to me across the country. Not just women who are running for Congress and federal office, but elementary school students running for student council or high school students who are their class presidents.

We want to be role models.

When women come up to me like, 'I am a freaking senator,' or, 'I'm a doctor,' it's like, 'Damn, y'all like me? I look up to y'all!'

If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.

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

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

I'm a role model for lots of young girls.

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.