Top 60 Mentors Quotes – Best Mentors Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating quotes about mentors

I’ve had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I’ve learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I’ve learned.

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

You have to believe it’s possible and believe in yourself. Because after you’ve decided what you want, you have to believe it’s possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

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.

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.

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

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

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.’

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

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.

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

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

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

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

Coaches are very important to players. They’re people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I’m going through.

I had good coaches and mentors. They helped me a lot, and I trusted them when they tapped on my shoulder to move to the next level. And maybe I’ve been smart enough to always say yes more than no when I’ve been proposed a new and challenging jobs.

Seek women mentors. If you’re a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There’s a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

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

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

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

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.

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

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

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It’s the only way we grow.

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.

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely.

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

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

Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.

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.

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.

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.

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching’s great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

Bring your best to your mentors and expect nothing in return, then true value will be created.

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 feel like I’ve done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

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

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.

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 are beneficial for personal and career growth.

I think I will never stop having mentors.

I’ve been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.

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.

It’s a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.

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

It’s so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don’t think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

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

Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.

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.