Top 100 Quotes About Mentoring
#1. One individual can typically care for no more than 10 people. Creating a 1:10 people system from the beginning allows you to provide the depth of spiritual relationship and mentoring people need and desire, while also scaling for growth.
Bill Woolsey
#2. Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#4. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Thomas Hughes
#5. What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
Vivek Wadhwa
#6. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#7. Mentoring, for some, is going back in time, sharing experiences and providing professional insight that has been learned through years of experience
Anonymous
#8. Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
Arne Duncan
#9. In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Phil Collins
#10. I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.
Charles Bronfman
#11. Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.
Jeff Benedict
#12. It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with.
Joseph Bottum
#13. I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
Bernard Cornwell
#14. Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too.
William Zinsser
#15. Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.
Sheryl Sandberg
#16. Self-awareness is a great tool to combating resistance. When you feel resistance to taking action, stop in your tracks. Try to understand the 'why' behind it. Is the resistance valid?
Vatsala Shukla
#17. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.
Tony Dungy
#18. Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should take an opposing position.
Robert A. Caro
#19. We can't really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.
Rhys Bezzant
#20. We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge is a way to get people off drugs and alcohol. Teen Challenge is a faith-based program that changes people's hearts.
George W. Bush
#21. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
Steve Knox
#22. Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.
Leonard Sax
#23. This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
Rebecca Goldstein
#24. I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.
Cordelia Jensen
#25. We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.
Sheryl Sandberg
#26. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.
Dean Koontz
#27. Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring.
Robert Genn
#28. Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there is still sunshine and life.
Nana Awere Damoah
#29. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat Conroy
#30. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.
E. M. Forster
#31. I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
Sanford I. Weill
#32. If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.
J. Loren Norris
#33. Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#34. I'm a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth.
Sufe Bradshaw
#35. The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Steven Spielberg
#36. Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
Karen Mills
#37. Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.
John Kasich
#38. You take your mentoring where you can find it, even if it's not being offered to you.
Mindy Kaling
#39. We have to become vast, only then we can succeed;but we confine our thinking ability most of the times
Rajasaraswathii
#40. Mentoring means not only acquiring knowledge but also learning how to practically apply that knowledge in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Mentorship happens organically, and you can't just force it. Many men don't even know HOW to mentor, and often mentor others by accident. It's not a mentor's responsibility to mentor, it's the responsibility of the mentee to seek mentorship and appropriate it.
Josh Hatcher
#42. I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play in my position. I see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around the country and the world.
Michelle Obama
#43. True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
David O. McKay
#44. A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.
Carson McCullers
#45. I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.
Erin O'Connor
#46. There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.
Ruth J. Simmons
#47. Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
John C. Crosby
#48. He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.
David Halberstam
#49. 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
#50. People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.
George W. Bush
#51. I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
Tamra Davis
#52. Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.
David Brooks
#53. I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.
David Skinner
#54. In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
Donald Sadoway
#55. Great mentors don't just tell you what you want to hear, they share from personal experience what you need to hear in light of your current situation and future goals.
Steve Knox
#56. Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.
Paul C. Nagel
#57. While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.
Thomas Hughes
#58. The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.
Myles Munroe
#59. It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
Karen Mills
#60. Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.
Sheryl Sandberg
#61. I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business
Richard Branson
#62. Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.
Steve Harvey
#63. The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.
Brooke Hauser
#64. Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now.
Douglas Copeland
#65. Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.
Chip R. Bell
#66. That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.
Thomas Hughes
#67. The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.
Mark W. Boyer
#68. This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic.
Jordan Scott
#69. Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with reading, math or help thinking about college. Through iMentor, one can even mentor people online.
Nicholas Kristof
#70. Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#71. There is trust, love, and understanding in freedom
Sunday Adelaja
#72. He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
David Halberstam
#73. Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.
Rene Carayol
#74. What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion
Jennifer Senior
#75. Patient dedication to the ordinary and often tedious disciplines of corporate and family worship, teaching, prayer, modeling, and mentoring have been eroded by successive waves of enthusiasm.
Michael S. Horton
#76. Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.
Ali
Davis Miller
#77. Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
Warren G. Bennis
#78. Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness
Janet Thompson
#79. He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.
Robert A. Caro
#80. Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.
Michael Meade
#81. 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
#82. I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.
They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
David Kahn
#83. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
Pat Conroy
#84. The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.
Don Wilton
#85. Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.
Martin Sheen
#86. The true tragedy in most people's lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.
Earl R. Smith II
#87. It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.
Jose A. Aviles
#88. The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
Gary Patton
#89. I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#90. No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
Peter F. Drucker
#91. As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.
Jim Bakker
#94. There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.
Sally Ride
#95. Jesus' approach to training was primarily as a mentor, and his mentoring method was relational, informal, oral, and mobile.
Evelyn Hibbert
#97. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.
Jeffrey Kluger
#98. Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
Richard Brookhiser
#99. Everything we know, we learned from someone else!
John Wooden
#100. The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
H.L. Mencken
