You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.
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.
Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.
Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
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.
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.
A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'
Refuse to be average.
What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.
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.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'
When I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. Sometimes mentors don't find you - sometimes you seek them out. You shouldn't hesitate to plop herself in someone's office and ask them to be that support.... Oftentimes, they're flattered and glad to lend a hand. So I would encourage any reader to seek out a mentor, then follow through and be very focused and persistent.
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.
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