Best Mentor Quotes

#1. In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

Richard Masur

#2. My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

Brendon Burchard

#3. The worst way to get a mentor is to go find one. The best way is to see the one that's already there.

Jeff Goins

#4. What I do requires fantastic concentration ... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

Truman Capote

#5. My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Tiger Woods

#6. The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Richard Davidson

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

John C. Maxwell

#8. We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on the point of view of a mentor or good friend who believes in you, wants the best for your, and will encourage you when you feel discouraged.

Kelly McGonigal

#9. When I mentor, I tell people that don't have to look like a supermodel but you have got to feel your best, look your best, and be confident.

Michelle Mone

#10. I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#11. Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that, for him, here was the last of those giants to whom we give the faith of our youth, believing like children that the riddle of our lives may be solved by their quiet judgment.

Thomas Wolfe

#12. My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

Keith Murray

#13. 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

#14. Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. 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

#16. In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

Robert Bly

#17. I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

Donal Logue

#18. 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

#19. My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Gus Van Sant

#20. I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

Nicole Trunfio

#21. Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur.
Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67

Erin Hunter