Mentoring Quotes

• 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.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Mentor, Helping

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.212, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Steven Spielberg

  Opportunity, Creating, Giving

  "Don’t have a mentor? Then mentor yourself" by Natasha Koifman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2016.

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• I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Thinking, People, Mentor

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• A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

  Bob Proctor

  Wisdom, Mentor, Helping

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• A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, People, Christian Inspirational

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 03, 2014

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Work, Adventure

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• A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Hope, Coaching, Mentor

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

  John Crawford Crosby

  Listening Ear, Brain, Mentor

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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, Mentor, Legacy

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• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Friendship, Success

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• In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

  Maya Angelou

  Makeup, Blood, Order

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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

  John Wooden

  Coaching, Knows

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• What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Opportunity, Mentor

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

  Phil Collins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Song: Son Of Man

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Andy Rooney

  People, Way, I've Learned

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• Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Knowledge, Unique, Legacy

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• I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Giving, Joy

  "Michelle Obama: Your First Lady (Special Recognition)". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2009.

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• I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.

  Usher

  Believe, Thinking, Mentor

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• What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

  John Wooden

  Hurt, Believe, Offering

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• 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.'

  Deepak Chopra

  Mentor, Want, Needs

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