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Top 20 Mentoring Quotes by Well-known Authors, Famous People and Newsmakers to Inspire You

May 5, 2019 By Neil Ball


 Top ​​20 Mentoring Quotes


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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.

— Oliver DeMille

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

— John C. Crosby

Mentoring isn’t just about what you can give to a protege. It’s about how you can help them accomplish what they want to accomplish. And once you know what the goal is, the path to getting there is just as important.

— Chris Ciulla

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

— Ginni Rometty

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

— Michael Meade

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.

— Richard Louv

If you are ‘too busy’ most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

— Martin Zwilling

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

— Karen Mills

Unless the mentee is real, the mentor ends up mentoring an imposter and it’s a waste of time for both.

— Lois Zachary, EdD

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

— Karen Mills

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

— Thomas Hughes

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.

— John Wooden

The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can ‘take it or leave it,’ I don’t do business with them. I enjoy mentoring. I like people who want to learn.

— Tilman J. Fertitta

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”.

— Daniel Burrus

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

With a growth mindset, kids don’t necessarily think that there’s no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but they believe everyone can develop their abilities through hard work, strategies, and lots of help and mentoring from others.

— Carol S. Dweck

Mentorships, similar to other important relationships, usually end. Ideological differences and a need to chart a personal path might preclude parties from maintaining the original balance that stabilized a mentoring relationship. Conflict between an apprentice and his master is not always bad; in fact, it is almost inevitable, if the apprentice’s destiny is to exceed the accomplishments of the master.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Mentoring is all about people – it’s about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated – concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It’ll be a disaster.

— Rene Carayol

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

— Myles Munroe

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

— Steven Spielberg
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