Mentor Quotes

Most busy people want to mentor someone great

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

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

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

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

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.

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.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

True understanding is the spur of genius

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

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.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.

Everyone needs a mentor.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

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

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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

I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

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.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.