Mentoring Quotes · Page 4

“Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.”

— Leonard Sax

“Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with…

— Chris Jirika

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

— Dick Gregory

“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.”

— Brooke Hauser

“Today, the lines between mentoring and networking are blurring. Welcome to the world of mentworking.”

— Julie Winkle Giulioni

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I…

— Andy Rooney

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

— Steve Harvey

If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

— Martin Zwilling

“Mentoring, for some, is going back in time, sharing experiences and providing professional insight that has been learned through years of experience”

— Anonymous

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so…

— Plato

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop…

— Jeffrey Kluger

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the…

— David O. McKay

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their…

— Dean Koontz

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them…

— Walter Dean Myers

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are…

— Indra Nooyi

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and…

— Michael Meade

“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

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

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

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

— Lou Holtz

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

— Julie Klassen

Listening sounds like a ridiculous characteristic for mentoring, but genuinely being invested and interested in people, meeting them for cups of coffee…

— Sinead Burke

All that being a college coach has done, is it's reaffirmed the need to take care of our young people. They're the…

— Tom Izzo

I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the…

— Barbara Harbach

“A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.”

— Carson McCullers

“Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.”

— Mark W Boyer

The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.

— Steve Harvey

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

— Indra Nooyi

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

— Ron Suskind

I have a vested interest in increasing the amount of diversity in my own business. That's something that I care about. So…

— Adam Conover

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to…

— Sheryl Sandberg

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all…

— Dan Hill

The path to diversity begins with supporting, mentoring, and sponsoring diverse women and men to become leaders and entrepreneurs.

— Denise Morrison

We've built a company that distributes a pair of eyeglasses to someone in need for every pair sold; that purchases carbon offsets;…

— Neil Blumenthal

I love to help with dreams and I love what I do on 'X Factor' as far as the mentoring and helping…

— Redfoo

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

— Vince Lombardi

“Good mentors value mentoring as part of their professional role and avoid focusing on their own professional needs and agendas, instead helping…

— Anonymous

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys…

— Steve Harvey

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

— Steven Spielberg