Role Model Quotes

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” ~ Isaac Newton

“Simply be the qualities you seek in others.” ~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Amazing people do not just happen.

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.” ~ John Adams

Be the kind of person that you want to meet.

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress – stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.” ~ Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.” ~ Epictetus

“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“What you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you are saying.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” ~ Wilferd Peterson