Mentor Quotes – Best Mentor Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating

A successful mentor is proud of his mentees, knowing that he has given a part of himself in their success.

As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For…things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn’t.

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, ‘That was fun.’ That will make them want to come back and do it again.

I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac’s personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.

When I hear him sing and see what he can do, though, it’s always a reminder of why I look up to Usher as my mentor and why I will always be an Usher fan to my core. But I’m lucky to say that he’s an even better friend to me than he’s a mentor. He’s truly the real deal.

Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it’s still your fault if they were wrong!

I caught the mentorship bug when I was Miss California U.S.A. and volunteered to mentor for a brand new program called ‘Who’s Your Hero.’ I literally fell in love with the impact it all has, not only on the girls but on myself – giving back is such a powerful thing.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn’t solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they’re generous and okay to bestow a bit of mentor-type information, it’s do what you feel, not what you think.

There’s this character, Theo Galavan, who becomes the ringleader for the revolution of villainy in the city of Gotham. He becomes this mentor figure for Jerome that really inspires him to go off the deep end, and it’s really fun.

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

And with the right mentor, don’t be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don’t know what you don’t know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you’ll be surprised how much others will help.

Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.

I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don’t offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it’s “please mentor me; I need my shot.” But they don’t offer anything in return.

There were mistakes that I made that I did learn from. When you don’t have responsibilities, the only responsibility is for yourself, but when you have someone there to mentor you, then you don’t make stupid mistakes.

Coach Dyer was a great mentor for me and a great teacher.

I look at a mentor of mine like Ryan Seacrest and the incredible amount of equity he’s been able to bring to the broadcasting arena, and the branding and the world that he’s been able to build around himself.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. ‘I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister’ he said.

Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don’t have investments in.

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

What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner’s fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

Jessica Biel is a really interesting case. She actually called us after the table read and said, ‘You guys should go meaner.” She pitched us, and said, “Look, I know there are a lot of things to make fun of me about. I don’t want people to think you’re pulling punches. Please, dive in.’ We asked, ‘Could we tell a joke about your friend and mentor Stephen Collins?’ And she said, ‘Well maybe not so much in that area. As long as the jokes were about me, I’m game for everything.’

The question is not “can you wear your father’s shoes?”. The question is “can you walk in your father’s shoes?”. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to say. This seems obvious, but it’s not. And she’s taken on a wide range of subject matter: each book poses new challenges, and that’s something I think about when I’m embarking on a project.