Positive Example Quotes

When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

I want to create a better environment for the kids who look up to me. I want them to know I'm not a perfect man, but I am a man who is willing to pay the price to do what is right. That's who I am.

Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.

We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

I'm always going to be a leader and always try and set up a positive example day in and day out, so I can - so the young guys hopefully pick up on it.

Ordinary people need extraordinary examples.

If you are a model to the Empire, then constant virtue will not be wanting [to the people].

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

I never thought in a million years that I would be called a role model for girls and even boys, too.

It is so key to me to be a good role model for young girls and someone their mom would want them to look up to.

Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.

We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility

It's special to me, a privilege being a role model. I take pride in being a good one.

I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.

We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.