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Top 40 Mentor Quotes – Best Mentor Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating

May 2, 2019 By Neil Ball


 Top 40 Mentor Quotes


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To help with knowing if you’re good or not, you need a mentor.

— Alex Day

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living-
if you do it well I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor.

— Denzel Washington

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

— Magic Johnson

In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don’t have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don’t need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you’re sharing with.

— Maya Angelou

It’s sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child’s nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

— Joyce Maynard

God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a mentor!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

— Jim Rohn

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

— Donovan Bailey

You’re never too young or too old to be a mentor.

— Reshma Saujani

There’s no law that says you have to do what your mentor suggests. And the sooner you learn how to say ‘no’ confidently, the easier it will be to manage these key relationships.

— David Cohen

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they’ve done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

— Tony Robbins

If your role is to mentor somebody, what you’re essentially doing is taking stock of what you’ve learned, the mistakes you’ve made, the successes you’ve had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

My mentor said, ‘Let’s go do it,’ not ‘You go do it.’

— Jim Rohn

Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

— Shane Claiborne

My most valued mentor. . . taught me that failing didn’t equate to failure, it just meant you had another shot at getting it right.

— Jennifer Hedding, SVP of HR for Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Mentorship happens organically, and you can’t just force it. Many men don’t even know HOW to mentor, and often mentor others by accident. It’s not a mentor’s responsibility to mentor, it’s the responsibility of the mentee to seek mentorship and appropriate it.

— Josh Hatcher

Everyone needs a mentor.

— Emeril Lagasse

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

Before finding a mentor, I feel it’s essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged – and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor’s attention.

— Raney Aronson-Rath

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I remember saying to my mentor, ‘If I had more money, I would have a better plan.’ He quickly responded, ‘I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.’ You see, it’s not the amount that counts; it’s the plan that counts.

— Jim Rohn

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

— Colin Powell

A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.

— Shawn Hitchcock

No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it’s being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn’t have as much experience as you. If you’re passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.

— Josh Groban

You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.

— Phil Ramone

Listening is the building block to being a good mentor.

— Chris Ciulla

Develop a mentor at each stage of your career – someone who will give you guidance and advice.

— Brian Tracy

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

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

— Denzel Washington

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

— Robert A. Johnson

Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people’s purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.

— John C. Maxwell

I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.

— Connie Brockway

A mentor, a ‘teacher,’ is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

— David Bergen

I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.

— Cordelia Jensen

Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

— Stephen Henderson

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

— Ellen Sauerbrey

The head sculptor, who became a mentor to me, said that the most important thing he’d ever learned was that you have to figure out what your number-one passion is and throw everything into that. And that if you didn’t do that, then you’re not really serving your purpose in the world, because you’re not going to put that extra effort in. And I knew I loved music, so I just quit and decided to pursue it.

— Amber Rubarth

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

— Vivek Wadhwa

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

— Bob Proctor
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