Top 15 Mentoring Quotes by Well-known Authors, Famous People and Newsmakers to Inspire You

While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

The recommendation when I’m mentoring folks, I always tell them – and we talked about this last year – take a risk.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.

The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it’s plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I’m going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we’re going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we’ll all sell more as a result”.

As more technology professionals devote more time to mentoring, they will sow the seeds of a future workforce capable of using Internet connections to change the world.

Mentoring is motivated by love.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Today, the lines between mentoring and networking are blurring. Welcome to the world of mentworking.

I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement…knowing that I’m talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who’s interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

One way Great Teams can connect their team members together is through the glue of mentoring.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

Small business, you can give them capital, but when they often need as much is mentoring, advice, and help with their business plan.