My role models

male: Freddie Prinze Jr. and Abraham Lincoln

female: Charlize Theron and Pink

some quotes

It is true that heroes are inspiring, but must not they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

- Jeanette Winterson

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.

- Ann Richards

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

- Tyron Edwards

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

- Francesco Guicciardini

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

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

- Plutarch

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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.

- Ben Johnson

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

- B. C. Forbes