Mentor Quotes

#1. Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 1994.

Greg Mortenson

#2. Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now...

Assegid Habtewold

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.

Damien Chazelle

#6. 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

#7. To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

Christina Aguilera

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

Eli Wallach

#11. Albert Einstein had Max Talmud, his first mentor. It was Max who introduced a ten-year-old Einstein to key texts in math, science, and philosophy. Max took one meal a week with the Einstein family for six years while guiding young Albert. No one is self-made.

Gary Keller

#12. I'm excited about the new judges on 'American Idol.' Jennifer Lopez was a real mentor to me my season and I admire her so much. And I kind of have a crush on Steven Tyler. It's going to be interesting to see is one person going to stand out among the judges or if everyone will sort of be equal.

Jordin Sparks

#13. My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

Dolph Lundgren

#14. I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

Michelle Obama

#15. Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

John Ferling

#16. You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.

Phil Ramone

#17. 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

#18. Having a coach or mentor is nothing more than sharing life's experiences, no amount of education can substitute true life experience

Lachlan McPherson

#19. Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

Stephen G. Post

#20. Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

Cory Trepanier

#21. Jesus' approach to training was primarily as a mentor, and his mentoring method was relational, informal, oral, and mobile.

Evelyn Hibbert

#22. 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.

Allan Houston

#23. The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

Orrin Woodward

#24. My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

Tom Brokaw

#25. Meeting Raven Wilkinson and having her as a mentor, it was that kind of support from the generations that came before me that helped to lift me up and give me the confidence to then be able to give back and bring other minorities with me on this journey.

Misty Copeland

#26. You aren't actually defending the Devil, are you?" Macon held up his hand. "Wait. What am I saying? He's probably your mentor.

Kami Garcia

#27. My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

Oliver E. Williamson

#28. A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#29. My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

Chris Zylka

#30. Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. I love to nurture, I love to help people. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor.

Debbi Fields

#32. I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.

Donalyn Miller

#33. Suppose ... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? ... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#34. My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#35. 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

#36. A force in your life, whether it be God, a friend, a mentor, or a higher being, is always there for you. Remember that when you are down, and focus on your appreciation. It will deliver but you need to recognize and acknowledge.

David Mezzapelle

#37. I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.

Jim Rohn

#38. And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.

George W. Bush

#39. who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?

Arthur C. Clarke

#40. Encourage the many; mentor the few.

John C. Maxwell

#41. In the schoolhouse, Mentor, the schoolteacher, gently tutored a mischievous eight-year-old named Gabe, who had neglected his studies to play and now needed help.

Lois Lowry

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

Anthony Hopkins

#43. Establishing your differences with the mentor is an important part of your self-development, whether he is of the good or bad parent type.

Robert Greene

#44. I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return.

Ryan Blair

#45. The young man had lost his mentor, his home, and his brother, all because of the actions of a single night.

Jeff Grubb

#46. 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

#47. My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

Steven Van Zandt

#48. If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

Magic Johnson

#49. Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

John Flanagan

#50. The author's mentor advises the NAKED method of breaking the ice at the first meeting: Name, Address, Kin, Experience, and Dreams.

Kevin Roose

#51. Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

Tina Weymouth

#52. I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.

Francis Capra

#53. What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

Jean Piaget

#54. I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.

C.M. Mayo

#55. I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

Sidney Sheinberg

#56. I think a mentor gets a lot of satisfaction in a couple of ways. They're doing something constructive, so they feel good about that. And when they see the results of this, with the young people they're working with, it's very, very rewarding.

John Glenn

#57. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.

Jose Andres

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

John C. Maxwell

#59. In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Sharon Gless

#60. 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

#61. A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

Bill Courtney

#62. We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

James Hillman

#63. 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.

Vivek Wadhwa

#64. Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

Deborah Sandella

#65. I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.

Condoleezza Rice

#66. You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in, encourage, mentor, think big.

Albert Mohler

#67. I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.

Mark Bradford

#68. 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

#69. I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.

Taron Egerton

#70. All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Colin Powell

#71. Steve Jobs was a friend and mentor whom I miss more than I can say.

John McAfee

#72. I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#73. My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

Jim Rohn

#74. The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

Charles Kennedy

#75. I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

Cheryl Strayed

#76. Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

Yolanda Adams

#77. Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

Brian Tracy

#78. You didn't have to come."
"Of course I did. What kind of a friend and mentor would I be if I went drinking without you?

Clay Griffith

#79. My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

Gia Coppola

#80. I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

Rob Roberge

#81. A mentor is a trusted teacher that develops lives of the vulnerable ones.

Euginia Herlihy

#82. One of the reasons it can be so hard to find a good mentor these days is that so few people have been mentored.

Jeff Goins

#83. Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Ann Kirkpatrick

#84. Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

Larry King

#85. Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them

Paul Gitwaza

#86. When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors.

Ravi Teja

#87. I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

Cory Booker

#88. Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Jill Soloway

#89. To keep you sane and successful. Find a mentor who have done what you are trying to accomplish before and help you.

Timi Nadela

#90. Everyone needs a mentor.

Emeril Lagasse

#91. I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

Joanne Harris

#92. In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

Jodie Evans

#93. Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.

Ben Horowitz

#94. One of the most important skills a mentor must teach an apprentice is how to fight.

Erin Hunter

#95. The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

Gautama Buddha

#96. I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

Sean Paul

#97. Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

Kishore Bansal

#98. As a mentor you have to learn how to tackle the past of your mentee, be able to put it to sleep and focus to the promising future of him/her.

Euginia Herlihy

#99. Cameron Diaz is probably my biggest beauty mentor of my friends. She knows how to do her own hair and makeup; she's really good at it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#100. Are you my mentor? If someone has to ask the question, the answer is probably no. When someone finds the right mentor, it is obvious. The question becomes a statement.

Sheryl Sandberg