Mentoring Quotes

Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness

— Janet Thompson

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

— Erin O'Connor

Mentoring artists is something I love.

— apl.de.ap

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

— John Wesley

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

— Edward de Bono

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

— John Wooden

I feel like I've been mentoring young guys for a long time.

— J. J. Redick

“Mentoring is motivated by love.”

— JA Perez

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

— Lou Holtz

“Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.”

— Richie Norton

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need…

— Richard Bach

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

— Donald Sadoway

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

— Robert Anthony

“Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.”

— William Shakespeare

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

— Anonymous

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

— John Heider

“We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first…

— Meredith Brooks

I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress…

— Colin Powell

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what…

— Sean Paul

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business…

— Karen Mills

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder,…

— Willie Aames

“I write my resolution in black Sharpie marker on top of a background made out of cut-up scriptures, words from newspaper headlines,…

— Renée Watson

I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You…

— Julie Klassen

Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will…

— Lou Holtz

Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided…

— Jack Canfield

When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you.…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“At the least, bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully. And although thou be very unwilling to hear it, and feel indignation,…

— Thomas à Kempis

I also think I was incredibly immature and inexperienced. I had little idea how to navigate the many network politics so allies…

— Cynthia Garrett

“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay,…

— Charles Dickens

In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how…

— Maya Angelou

“I met with a group of a hundred or so fifth graders from a poor neighborhood at a school in Houston, Texas.…

— Tony Robbins

“A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at…

— Ron Suskind

Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration…

— Kambri Crews

Throughout my career, I have benefitted from the experience and counsel of a wide range of people who took a very personal…

— Laurel J. Richie

“Real mentoring is less of neither the candid smile nor the amicable friendship that exists between the mentor and the mentee and…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It seems a simple task. We all know what water looks like, feels like in our mouth. Water is ubiquitous. Describing a…

— Brandon Sanderson

“We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a…

— Thomas Hughes

There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together…

— Dana Goldstein