Mentor Quotes - Page 5

• I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

  John Leguizamo

  Liars, Hero, Thinking

  "John Leguizamo On Outsourcing, Obama and Mood Swings". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2010.

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

  James Levine

  Teacher, Lucky, Moments

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• Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  Guru Nanak

  Letting Go, Prayer, Compassion

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• 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

  Giving, Legacy, Inheritance

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• Lou Holtz is a brilliant strategist, a first-class motivator, and an inspiring role model. Winning Every Day coaches you through the hard-won lessons of life that Coach Holtz has gleaned from a lifetime of learning. Using personal behind-the-scenes experiences he shows you how to break through obstacles, capitalize on fleeting opportunities, and achieve success. There is no better mentor than Lou Holtz.

  Peter Lowe

  Life Lesson, Winning, Opportunity

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

  Diahann Carroll

  Kings, Profound, Advice

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• Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely.

  J. K. Rowling

  Struggle, Broken, Soul

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.79, Pottermore

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• He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.

  Anna Sewell

  Men, Hands, People

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.48, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Brendon Burchard

  Smart, Believe, Successful

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• Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life--caring and sharing--that cannot be learned or purchased.

  David Cottrell

  Caring, Two, Ingredients

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• And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

  Howard Schultz

  Advice, Weakness, Helping

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• 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

  Funny, Money, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 25, 2016

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• 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.

  Jane Fonda

  Looks, Speak, Conferences

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Years, Years Ago, Hopkins

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• 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.

  Lee Iacocca

  Guy, Retail, Noses

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

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

  Nicole Richie

  Roles

  "Interview: Nicole Richie On Being A Fashion Star Mentor". Real Style Network Interview, www.realstylenetwork.com.

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• It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Female, Roles

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• Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

  Jerry Saltz

  Country, Art, Looks

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

  Gus Van Sant

  Teacher, Art, Gay

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.

  Michael Gurian

  Character, Independent, Boys

  Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin

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• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose, among the only ones who live beyond the grave in this world, the people who write books that help, make exquisite music, carve statues, paint pictures, and work for others. Never mind the calico dress, and the coarse shoes. Work at you books, and before long you will hear yesterday's tormentors boasting that they were once classmates of yours.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Lying, Book, Writing

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.819, eBookIt.com

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

  Brendan Rodgers

  Study, Influence

  "Brendan Rodgers readies Swansea City for the big time". Interview With Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2011.

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

  Donald Sadoway

  Motivation, Inspiration, Batteries

  "Innovating Dirt Cheap: What Sadoway Can Teach Us About The Future Of Clean Energy" by Loukia Papadopoulos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2016.

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• We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

  Clark Moustakas

  Change, Strength, Being Yourself

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• 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

  Long, Role Models, Entrepreneur

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