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Nothing automatically makes someone a good role model obviously, but going through a program like Judo teaches you a lot of things like being humble.
I'd actually contrast that to supposedly softer martial arts like aikido where you don't actually train with resistance and therefore don't get that humbling effect that I was talking about.
I think you can experience some humbling events, but teaching people to be humble isn't exactly the goal of any of the martial arts. Lots of people just end up learning how to be more effective at violence. I used to do some amateur boxing, and I wouldn't really claim a lot of the guys I boxed with to be especially humble. Lots of contact sports has a lot of ego involved in it.