Role Quotes

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

Everyone in the organizations is very important. From the sweeper to the security officer; from the messenger to the manager, everyone doing well at his post is a leader. The organization becomes a leading one when it’s made up of people leading in their roles.

Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.

At the end of life, your reward in heaven will not be proportional to the role you played on earth, but how faithful you played it. Be faithful in every little role you are to play; it'll lead you to a greater reward! Faithfulness is key!

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Example has more followers than reason.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Angels are not supernatural beings who come from heaven knows where. Angels are human beings who consciously – or not – choose to be at the right place and at the right time to play their role in the universe. You are destined to be an angel.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, in person. A character is in a story to fill a role there, and the character's life along with its expression of life is defined by that surrounding - indeed is created by its own story. Yet, it seems to me now, years after I wrote The Golden Apples, that I did bring forth a character with whom I came to feel oddly in touch. She derived from what I already knew for myself, even felt I had always known. What I have put into her is my passion for my own life work, my own art. Exposing yourself to risk is a truth that Mrs. Eckhart and I had in common. What animates and possesses me is what drives Mrs. Eckhart, the love of her art and the love of giving it, the desire to give it until there is no more left. Of course any writer is in part all of his characters. How otherwise would they be known to him, occur to him, become what they are? In the making of her character out of my most inward and most deeply felt self, I would say I have found my voice in my own fiction.

To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you..."Dexter: You seem uncertain. It's uncomfortable, isn't it? Just when you think you've answered all the questions, another one smacks you in the face. Life, life, life. Life is just like that. Which is why I prefer death."But in the end some people play well their role others can't play it.

There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more than a special appearance to our story.People, who influence, who possess the drift, the force whose implication leads us forward in our course of life. We might have never come across them until today and probably not hear from them tomorrow or ever after, for all that exists is this moment, a moment enough for them to fulfil their purpose that being to help us find our way and enough for us to fulfil ours that being to actually find it, reach it, accomplish it. They are the ones who bring meaning to our lives, who happen to inspire, who spark a fire that we carry with us for the rest of our days, who are but pillars of hope and sometimes sacrifice, life-changers, life-savers, catalysts.

I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

To be a role model of the kingdom priority is for your lifestyle to speak it

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

Value of gold is understood in crisis than on a occasion. But the gold plays both the role reminding its significance. We yet times need to value and de-value to understand and appreciate significance of several things.

The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably.

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.

Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Sometimes the people that push you to work hard, Won't be there in the time of harvest. Such is life. Everyone you meet has a role to play in your life.. Just play along & Believe in yourself.

Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!

If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

Deepen your knowledge about your role in the society

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.

We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.

Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.

With the gentle force of their words, the dogged warmth of their embrace, and the assuring touch of souls softly bared, mothers are silently shaping whole societies and authoring entire cultures that sit poised on the horizon of the future. And although we ignorantly relegate such roles to some lower caste status, we would be wise to understand that the role of a mother sets the cadence of the future.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.