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Top 50 Mentors Quotes – Best Mentors Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating quotes about mentors

May 4, 2019 By Neil Ball


 Top ​50 Mentors Quotes


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

— John C. Maxwell

The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.

— David Cohen

I had many mentors, and they didn’t know it.

— Maggie Wilderotter

My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.

— Steve Maraboli

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.

— George Lucas

I’ve been lucky to have lots and lots of mentors. I think that is incredibly important in anyone’s life to encourage and inspire them, let them understand that their own potential is a reality that they can strive for.

— Erik Weihenmayer

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.

— Richard M. DeVos

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.

— Rob Riggle

As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me – engaging with young women and take them seriously.

— Jane Park

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.

— Renee Olstead

Don’t wait for someone to tap you on the shoulder. Make your goals known and proactively develop relationships with those that can help get you there either in the form of mentors or sponsors.

— Lynne Doughtie

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.

— Cathy Engelbert

Mentors and sponsors are beneficial for personal and career growth.

— Lynne Doughtie

I’ve met people and have mentors that have taught me and I’m still trying to get better today.

— Gigi Hadid

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

— Richie Norton

Key relationships can become threatened when you start exploring your own path. This is true when it comes to relationships with parents, mentors, and bosses. It’s not always true, but many times these important people in our lives feel threatened in some way by our independence from them. There is an inner conflict that comes with exploring your own voice.

— Chip Espinoza

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.

— Lauren Bush

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.

— Mitch Harper

You can’t become a CEO without working hard and delivering results, but that will only take you so far. Building and leveraging strong relationships with mentors and sponsors will take you the rest of the way.

— Denise Morrison

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

— Mark Warner

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.

— Shellye Archambeau

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life – early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

— John Wooden

I like to tell people that I have some of the biggest mentors in the world… they just don’t know I exist. Dave Ramsey, Sara Blakely, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard – I’ve learned everything I know from their wisdom through books, podcasts and conferences.

— Rachel Hollis

I think I will never stop having mentors.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

— Gary W. Goldstein

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Junot Diaz

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

— Michelle Obama

Most of my mentors and investors have been incredibly smart, thoughtful men. I’ve had the privilege of being mentored by some extraordinary men who saw something in me and took me more seriously than I knew how to take myself.

— Jane Park

Don’t wait for mentors to seek you out. Don’t ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

— Denis Waitley

I think mentors are important and I don’t think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don’t know it.

— Oprah Winfrey

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.

— Rob Lowe

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

— Claudia Black

Behind every great leader, at the base of every great tale of success, you will find an indispensable circle of trusted advisors, mentors, and colleagues.

— Unknown

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.

— David Cottrell

Everyone I’ve worked with – in my eyes – they are mentors and heroes.

— Jamie Brewer

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, ‘Look, it’s not that tough. It’s not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.

— Joe Jonas

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you – financially, mentally, morally, emotionally – to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you’re too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don’t let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

— Stephen King

It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.

— Tim Gunn

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

— Daymond John

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

— Richard Branson

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.

— Jennifer Hyman

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

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

— Robert G. Allen

Context begins with other artists – seniors and mentors.

— Kenneth Noland

I’ve been very, very lucky because I’ve had so many great mentors.

— Bobby Kotick

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.

— Kathryn Minshew

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

— Caroline Ghosn

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

— Melanne Verveer

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 very important. They could be anyone–your husband, other family members, or your boss.

— Indra Nooyi the CEO of PepsiCo
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