Randy Travis Quotes

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

I believe if you act with people who are better than you, it's only going to make you better.

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

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

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.

My role models have kept on changing.

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.

Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.

My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.

Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music.

I don't think that one should beat himself or herself over the head if immediately you're not like Jesus Christ or, you know, Gandhi or whoever. But I think the idea is to... to look at those examples and try to... try to operate in a way that every day you live or every interaction you have pushes you further along to operating with that mindset.