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

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.

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

If a negative atmosphere pervades where you live or work, go elsewhere. Seek out friends, business associates, and mentors with positive attitudes who share your goals and best interests.

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

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you’re not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?

My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.

True Mentors, don’t make their mentees a clone of themselves.

I’ve learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I’ve learned.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

I probably have a small number of people that are consistently advisors and mentors, but I’m much more likely to have a broader array of… almost like an unofficial board of advisors, where I know that certain people are going to be good for certain types of topics.

Mentors and sponsors are beneficial for personal and career growth.

It’s important to look for mentors all around you.

Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life–caring and sharing–that cannot be learned or purchased.

Throughout my career, I had a lot of mentors, and I just adopted them. What I found is that, especially if you’re young, when you go up to people and say, ‘Would you mind being my mentor?,’ their eyes widen. They literally step back. What they’re thinking about is the commitment and time involved if they say yes. And time is something they don’t have. So I would not ask them to be my mentor, but I would just start treating them like it. And that worked very well for me.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don’t. It’s that simple.

My advice is for veterans to seek out mentors, people who are doing what you want to do. You have to decide what you want and have a goal. Don’t worry about how you’re going to do it. Just trust that you’ll get there.

If your mentors only tell you that you are awesome, it’s time to find other mentors.