A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. — Oprah Winfrey
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you. — Bob Proctor
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. — Steven Spielberg
In the first half of life, find a great mentor. In the second half, be one. — David Sinclair
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'. — Dan Rather
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge. — Cheryl Richardson
Different mentors throughout my life have supported and guided me to remember that I do have the strength, courage and talent to do whatever I want to do. — Misty Copeland
Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). — Tony Dungy
What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows. — Paulo Coelho
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. — Patricia Neal
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research. — Jean Piaget
I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. — Harvey Penick
Short Mentor Quotes
A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll. — Prince
Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend. — Jared Kushner
You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself. — Diana Ross
Mentors won’t make you rich. — Naval Ravikant
The dementors send their love, Potter! — J. K. Rowling
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two! — J. K. Rowling
It takes more intelligence to learn from someone ahead of you than to attack them. — Alex Hormozi
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie. — Lou Holtz
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy. — Myles Munroe
Mentor Image Quotes
A good mentor teaches you how to think, not what to think.
Teacher Mentor Quotes
Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. — Naval Ravikant
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. — Gus Van Sant
Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage. — Ken Robinson
Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers. — Kelly Gallagher
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. — Gus Van Sant
Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor. — Debbie Reynolds
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. — Roger Ebert
Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas. — Michael Josephson
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. — Anne Rice
As teachers, we should strive to be the ordinary heroes, the moral exemplars, to the people we mentor. — Barry Schwartz
Student Mentor Quotes
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. — Arne Duncan
In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. — Hilda Solis
Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people. — Jennifer Skiff
I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like. — Donalyn Miller
The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor. — Orrin Woodward
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow. — Michael Meade
Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius. — Anton Ehrenzweig
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student. — Parker J. Palmer
Motivational Mentor Quotes
Another person’s progress is an affirmation of what’s possible, not a reason to doubt your own. The people you envy are not your competition, they are your mentors. — Brianna Wiest
My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!' — Jim Rohn
A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car. — Michael Johnson
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination. — John C. Maxwell
I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney. — Mike Leach
Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt at communication appropriate. Celebrate the whole person. — Bob Samples
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple. — Vivek Wadhwa
They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons. — Vince Lombardi
It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere. — Vince Lombardi
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them. — Satchel Paige
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results. — Ken Blanchard
People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all. — Ziauddin Yousafzai
Surround yourself with those who want you to succeed, who recognize what it takes to be successful. People who don’t pursue their own dreams probably won’t encourage you to pursue yours. — Tim Grover
I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts. — Jim Rohn
My goal there on the business side of things is to become the Dr. Dre of social media. He was mentoring younger artists and helping them launch their careers, like Eminem. — Jake Paul
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself. — Chico Xavier
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students. — Ken Robinson
There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences. — Sally Ride
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being. I never have from that day on. You are your patients guide, counselor, and defender, not their ruler and dictator. — Steven Gundry
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. — Steven Van Zandt
I think a mentor gets a lot of satisfaction in a couple of ways. They're doing something constructive, so they feel good about that. And when they see the results of this, with the young people they're working with, it's very, very rewarding. — John Glenn
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential. — Donald Sadoway
Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan. — Karen Mills
Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force. — Indra Nooyi
Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour. — Guru Nanak
You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word. — Bill Courtney
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . . — J. K. Rowling
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships. — Derrick Bell
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now. — Amory Lovins
And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They would not affect him now. The fact of his own survival burned inside him, a talisman against them, as though his father's stag kept guardian in his heart. — J. K. Rowling
When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie. — Trent Reznor
I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious. — Meera Syal
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me. — Gene Kelly
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