Top 20 Mentors Quotes – Best Mentors Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating quotes about mentors

You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

My personal narrative – I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that’s what really built me up.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done.

My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

Mentors don’t just have to be people who are older or more experienced than you are. Mentors are people who really care about you, know you, and want to offer feedback and advice to help you grow.

Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they’ll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals – and with a community of mentors and fellow ‘disciples.’

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.

I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Mentors and sponsors, particularly in the early stages of my career, were invaluable to me because they encouraged me to raise my hand and take opportunities to build my capabilities.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Mentors and sponsors are beneficial for personal and career growth.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

No matter what level you’re starting at, it’s about not only utilizing your time, but your resources and network. For me, I started my company with a small amount of savings; I never had investors and I was lucky in the sense that I had models and connections in the fashion industry who were willing to give me advice early on. So really, for anyone starting a new business, it’s really important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you. And to not let that be discouraging, but to take that advice and really learn from it and mold it to what you’re trying to do.

Mentors are not there to make us ‘happy’. They are there to guide us to the best of their knowledge.

I have phenomenal mentors who guide me to maximize my effectiveness.