William McKinley Quotes

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

I want to impact some lives down the road, one by one, and I want people to look at my story and my life as an inspiration.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

My whole thing is I want to affect history in a positive way. I want the timeline to be, 100 years from now, when we look back, it's going to be like, the world was like this, and then Shameik Moore hit the world, and everything changed for the better. It was a new light. Something special.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.

I just want to be remembered as an inspiration. I don't want to be remembered as anything else.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

When I first got the call from my manager asking if I'd ever heard of Jesse Owens, I recognized the name, looked him up, and was blown away by his story.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

I want to be all used up when I die.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

Being a role model is a privilege.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

I really just try to enjoy the game and hope that I can inspire young kids. I started playing tennis because of Monica Seles, and I try to promote the sport in the best possible way. Sometimes it's hard because you get upset on court, but I think in life one learns through experiences in order to evolve as a person.