Uplifting Examples Quotes

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.

We need to have our children look up to real role models.

My role models were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modeling was immediate, it was touchable. It was rare for me to idolize a movie star or a singer...because, truly, children connect with who is in their lives, present and accounted for.