Mentor Quotes

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

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.

Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

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.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

To be that big of a star and that grounded and that classy, I'm mean [ George Clooney] was a true mentor for me and, as a director, he's incredible.

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

I had many mentors, and they didn't know it.

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

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

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

Without my mentors there is no Misty.

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.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

I always train like a family. Antonio Rodrigo is like my mentor. He helped me a lot. He's always there with me. My coaches and I have made a strategy for this fight.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

Spiritual joy is devotion, it's like a virus you know? It's a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It's infectious. Ram Dass was like a mentor in those days.

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.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.

There is no greater power and support you can give someone than to look them in the eye, and with sincerity/conviction say, 'I believe in you.

Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.