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Top 50 Mentor Quotes – Best Mentor Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating

May 2, 2019 By Neil Ball


 Top 50 Mentor Quotes


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I can’t emphasize enough the value of future leaders having a great mentor, sponsor, even a great coach.

— Alec Bashinsky, Global HR & Transformation Leader

Find a mentor who has skills in the area you want to develop. That sounds so simple, but it’s the key to a successful relationship.

— Erin Lynn, Associate Manager of Regulatory Compliance at Allstate

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 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

Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

— Cory Trepanier

The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years–with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking.

— Bing Gordon

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation – to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

— Derrick Bell

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

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

I’ve always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that’s my goal.

— Sutan Amrull

One who refuses to seek the advice of others will eventually be led to a path of ruin. A mentor helps you to perceive your own weaknesses and confront them with courage. The bond between mentor and protege enables us to stay true to our chosen path until the very end.

— Anonymous

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 enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

— John C. Mather

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

— John Catsimatidis

To be a successful mentor one must have knowledge and willingness to dedicate a lot of time to mentorship.

— Eraldo Banovac

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

— Myles Munroe

The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can’t find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor’s joy and sustenance.

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Shawn Hitchcock

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

— Bill Courtney

Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the direction of their spiritual lives and who will tell them what to do and how to think. A guide or a counselor is understandable, as in sports or music or in any pursuit, but that is not enough. Many mistakenly believe they have to be led each step of the way.

— Joseph Girzone

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

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

We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on the point of view of a mentor or good friend who believes in you, wants the best for your, and will encourage you when you feel discouraged.

— Kelly McGonigal

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

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

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

— Alex Day

My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.

— Brendan Rodgers

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

— Shane Claiborne

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

My father was clearly a mentor. He told me if you work 10 years and you worked 40 hours a week, then you had 10 years experience. But if you worked 10 years and you worked 60 hours a week, then you had 15 years’ experience.

— Terry J. Lundgren

It is a solemn duty to change lives positively.It is a noble honor to inspire and be there for others.It is an irresistible necessity to have empathy; to understand the situations and the reasons for the actions of others. Real mentoring is less of neither the candid smile nor the amicable friendship that exists between the mentor and the mentee and much more of the impacts. The indelible great footprints the mentor lives on the mind of the mentee in a life changing way. How the mentor changes the mentee from ordinariness to extra-ordinariness; the seed of purposefulness that is planted and nurtured for great fruits; the prayer from afar from the mentor to the mentee; and the great inspirations the mentee takes from the mentor to dare unrelentingly to face the storms regardless of how arduous the errand may be with or without the presence of the mentor.

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

My mentor. . . showed me that, when things go sideways, blame has no place in the room.

— Chris Ciulla

A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn’t in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.

— Caroline Ghosn

I love to nurture, I love to help people. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor.

— Debbi Fields

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

— Mike May

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

— Ellen Sauerbrey

My best mentor is a mechanic – and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn’t have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

— Brendon Burchard

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

— Bo Sanchez

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader.

— Tony Dungy

Everyone needs a mentor.

— Emeril Lagasse

But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys.

— LeBron James

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

— Mitch Harper

Sheryl Sandberg was a mentor and a champion for me, and she saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself.

— Stacy Brown-Philpot

Real mentoring is less of neither the candid smile nor the amicable friendship that exists between the mentor and the mentee and much more of the impacts. The indelible great footprints the mentor live on the mind of the mentee in a life changing way. How the mentor changes the mentee from ordinariness to extra-ordinariness; the seed of purposefulness that is planted and nurtured for great fruits; the payer from afar from the mentor to the mentee; and the great inspirations the mentee takes from the mentor to dare unrelentingly to face the storms regardless of how arduous the errand may be with or without the presence of the mentor.

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don’t wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Reshma Saujani

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

— John C. Maxwell
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