Top 30 Mentor Quotes – Best Mentor Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

Find a mentor who has skills in the area you want to develop. That sounds so simple, but it’s the key to a successful relationship.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

If your mentor is willing to make the commitment, you need to honor her time and willingness to work with you.

Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people’s purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.

Once you embrace the absolute truth that every leader needs a mentor, you can begin to achieve the massive growth and success that you seek.

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

If your role is to mentor somebody, what you’re essentially doing is taking stock of what you’ve learned, the mistakes you’ve made, the successes you’ve had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

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.

Develop a mentor at each stage of your career – someone who will give you guidance and advice.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

Unless the mentee is real, the mentor ends up mentoring an imposter and it’s a waste of time for both.

Before finding a mentor, I feel it’s essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged – and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor’s attention.

A mentor, a ‘teacher,’ is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

To help with knowing if you’re good or not, you need a mentor.

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.

If you’re early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It’s not even close. And don’t even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

I’ll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren’t exactly sure how to do that. To me, it’s a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

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

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.

I can’t emphasize enough the value of future leaders having a great mentor, sponsor, even a great coach.

My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living-
if you do it well I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor.

If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

The head sculptor, who became a mentor to me, said that the most important thing he’d ever learned was that you have to figure out what your number-one passion is and throw everything into that. And that if you didn’t do that, then you’re not really serving your purpose in the world, because you’re not going to put that extra effort in. And I knew I loved music, so I just quit and decided to pursue it.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

My best mentor is a mechanic – and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn’t have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.