Quotes About Mentoring Others

#1. 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. - Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer

#2. This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student. - Author: Rebecca Goldstein

#3. 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. - Author: Cordelia Jensen

#4. 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. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#5. 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. - Author: Dean Koontz

#6. 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. - Author: Robert Genn

#7. 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. - Author: Nana Awere Damoah

#8. 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. - Author: Pat Conroy

#9. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. - Author: E. M. Forster

#10. 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. - Author: Sanford I. Weill

#11. If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before. - Author: J. Loren Norris

#12. Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight. - Author: Leonard Sax

#13. 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. - Author: Sufe Bradshaw

#14. The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. - Author: Steven Spielberg

#15. Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan. - Author: Karen Mills

#16. Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming. - Author: John Kasich

#17. 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. - Author: Josh Hatcher

#18. I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level. - Author: Gerry Harvey

#19. Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others. - Author: Bob Goshen

#20. Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45). - Author: Tony Dungy

#21. The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with. - Author: Joseph Bottum

#23. Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable. - Author: Gregory Of Nyssa

#24. Great teachers are great mentors. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. 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. - Author: Thomas Hughes

#26. What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading. - Author: Vivek Wadhwa

#27. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. - Author: Oprah Winfrey

#28. Mentoring, for some, is going back in time, sharing experiences and providing professional insight that has been learned through years of experience - Author: Anonymous

#29. 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. - Author: Arne Duncan

#30. In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. - Author: Phil Collins

#31. 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. - Author: Charles Bronfman

#32. 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. - Author: Jeff Benedict

#33. 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. - Author: Bill Woolsey

#34. I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face. - Author: Bernard Cornwell

#35. 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. - Author: William Zinsser

#36. 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. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#37. 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? - Author: Vatsala Shukla

#38. 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. - Author: Tony Dungy

#39. 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. - Author: Robert A. Caro

#40. We can't really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for. - Author: Rhys Bezzant

#41. 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. - Author: George W. Bush

#42. 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. - Author: Steve Knox