Top 20 Mentor Quotes – Best Mentor Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating

Having more than one mentor is important –
then it’s like having your personal board of directors.

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.

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.

You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.

Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner’s fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it’s being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn’t have as much experience as you. If you’re passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.

I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.

Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it’s still your fault if they were wrong!

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

A successful mentor is proud of his mentees, knowing that he has given a part of himself in their success.

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

My mentor said, ‘Let’s go do it,’ not ‘You go do it.’

The question is not “can you wear your father’s shoes?”. The question is “can you walk in your father’s shoes?”. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years–with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.