Top 50 Mentors Quotes – Best Mentors Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating quotes about mentors

I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Mentors and sponsors, particularly in the early stages of my career, were invaluable to me because they encouraged me to raise my hand and take opportunities to build my capabilities.

Don’t wait for someone to tap you on the shoulder. Make your goals known and proactively develop relationships with those that can help get you there either in the form of mentors or sponsors.

It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.

Mentors and sponsors are beneficial for personal and career growth.

Seek women mentors. If you’re a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There’s a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you’re not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.

I’ve been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.

When I grew up, I simply didn’t have mentors that said, “Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful.” And that’s such a simple thought, but when you think about what’s powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.

I’ve learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I’ve learned.

People need to be in charge of their development plan. They need to seek out their sponsors and their mentors and be very strategic.

I’ve had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I’ve learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I’ve learned.

Coaches are very important to players. They’re people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour.

Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.

If your mentors only tell you that you are awesome, it’s time to find other mentors.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

If you don’t go talk to your boss, if you don’t go talk to your mentors, if you don’t go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don’t know. And they’re not mind readers.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you’re with them, you’re being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

Behind every great leader, at the base of every great tale of success, you will find an indispensable circle of trusted advisors, mentors, and colleagues.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done.

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

Mentors are not there to make us ‘happy’. They are there to guide us to the best of their knowledge.

I’ve been lucky to have lots and lots of mentors. I think that is incredibly important in anyone’s life to encourage and inspire them, let them understand that their own potential is a reality that they can strive for.

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.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

It’s important to look for mentors all around you.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don’t. It’s that simple.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

It’s so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don’t think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

I like to tell people that I have some of the biggest mentors in the world… they just don’t know I exist. Dave Ramsey, Sara Blakely, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard – I’ve learned everything I know from their wisdom through books, podcasts and conferences.

I joined a very male-dominated profession back in 1986. I wanted to work with big multinational Fortune 500 companies, but you don’t come into the firm and automatically get those. So, quite frankly, a key to my success was that I found male mentors and male sponsors. I think some women are afraid to say that.

My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.

Bring your best to your mentors and expect nothing in return, then true value will be created.

I’ve been very, very lucky because I’ve had so many great mentors.

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life – early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.