Mentoring Quotes

Mentoring Quote of the day

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

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

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

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

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

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.

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

People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.

Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.