A Great Mentor Quotes

#1. A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#2. I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.

Lynsey Addario

#3. Every great soul had a great mentor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!

Bill Walsh

#5. A great mentor always uses his/her own way to dig deep and squeezes out all the hidden talents and gifts.

Euginia Herlihy

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

Anthony Hopkins

#7. Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.

Susanna White

#8. You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

Lesley Gore

#9. Great mentorship is priceless.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Wanted to be a great warrior and a good mentor more than anything else, but it seemed painfully clear that Tigerclaw was just waiting for him to fail.

Erin Hunter

#11. EVOLUTION
A great parent/mentor/teacher will push you beyond their attained status

Kamil Ali

#12. 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

#13. The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

John C. Maxwell

#14. Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

Ken Robinson

#15. The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

Gary Patton

#16. I want young girls that I mentor and young girls all around the world who want to be a model to be able to see that there's a great deal of sacrifice.

Jessica White

#17. What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

Oliver DeMille

#18. I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

Erica Tazel

#19. The great mentor is master builder of great students.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

Michael Symon

#21. Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things ... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

#22. A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

Warren Buffett

#23. Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Samuel Smiles

#24. My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

Larry Fitzgerald

#25. And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

Dave Winfield

#26. Long, long ago, my great mentor in graduate school, the late Darb, he said if you're writing for a popular audience, you do not start by saying, 'Consider a small, open economy..' You say, 'In Belgium.

Paul Krugman