Top 100 Quotes About Mentors
#1. I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.
Richard Branson
#2. We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.
Deborah Cox
#3. A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.
Julie Delpy
#4. Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
Junot Diaz
#5. I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.
Leila Janah
#6. I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.
Joyce Tenneson
#7. My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.
Mason Cooley
#8. He felt a mixture of fear and excitement, but his main concerns were not dying, making his mentors proud, and not making a fool of himself, in that order of importance.
Wesley Chu
#9. I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.
Nick Woodman
#10. Mentors should be patient, passionate and should not rest until they see a great development on their mentees.
Euginia Herlihy
#11. It's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.
Condoleezza Rice
#12. We have new roles as coaches and mentors, now that the job of learning is in the hands and minds of the learners.
Matt Renwick
#13. When one person mentors, two lives are changed.
Kevin Sessums
#14. Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
Andy Hargreaves
#15. I've heard one of my SEAL mentors say that there are rules about bitching. He said everyone has the right to bitch about a mission or job for five minutes. After those five minutes, you shut the fuck up and get to work.
Mark Owen
#16. Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
Kenneth Noland
#17. One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
John C. Maxwell
#18. One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.
Nick Woodman
#19. Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two amazing writing mentors who helped me along the way. They always encouraged me to be okay with a simple story.
Aurora Guerrero
#20. I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.
Herbie Hancock
#21. When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.
Juan Enriquez
#22. I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.
Michael Bolton
#23. I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out. It could be your next-door neighbor; it could be somebody upstairs from you, somebody down the block from you. An aunt or an uncle. Some relative. A parent.
Judith Jamison
#24. I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.
Laura Owens
#25. I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.
Jade Hassoune
#27. A growing leader needs a relational network that embraces mentors, peers, and emerging leaders in order to ensure development and a healthy perspective on his or her life and ministry.
Paul D. Stanley
#28. In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.
Chico Xavier
#29. The mentors in my life, inspired me to fulfill my highest potential.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
Roger Ebert
#31. Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.
Robert G. Allen
#32. And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
Jeffrey Tambor
#33. Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
Marissa Mayer
#35. If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching ... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.
Indra Nooyi
#36. Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.
George Lucas
#37. Angels also often want to contribute more than money to a young company. Angels have the experience, and inclination, to be great mentors and valuable directors.
Basil Peters
#39. Don't live in the past, and don't carry the past around like a burden. But simply use your past as one of your mentors to help refine mistakes and make changes you can invest now and the future.
Jim Rohn
#40. I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.
Alan Dershowitz
#41. God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.
Maria Shriver
#42. Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.
Kirk Ferentz
#44. I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.
Keith Urban
#45. You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.
George Lucas
#46. I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.
Benjamin Watson
#47. I've been lucky to have lots and lots of mentors. I think that is incredibly important in anyone's life to encourage and inspire them, let them understand that their own potential is a reality that they can strive for.
Erik Weihenmayer
#48. Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
Jack Canfield
#49. I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
Tayari Jones
#50. Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.
Melanne Verveer
#51. Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
Samuel Beckett
#52. Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#53. I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. A blessing on the printer's art!
Books are the mentors of the heart.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#55. San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#56. I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.
Paul Dano
#57. I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.
Gladys Knight
#58. Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.
Daymond John
#59. Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.
Lauren Conrad
#60. I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.
John Leguizamo
#61. One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women.
Wendy Greuel
#62. I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
Renee Olstead
#63. Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.
Daymond John
#64. I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
Gene Kelly
#65. Everyone of us has a new name that winks at us daily because there are rivers of life in our bellies, we just need our mentors to help us to give birth to those new names.
Euginia Herlihy
#66. Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.
John Paul Warren
#67. The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
Isaiah Thomas
#68. I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#69. I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
Jewel
#71. My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
Courtney Love
#74. I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#75. In roles as leaders and mentors, givers resist the temptation to search for talent first. By recognizing that anyone can be a bloomer, givers focus their attention on motivation. The
Adam M. Grant
#76. You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
Diana Ross
#77. Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.
Gary W. Goldstein
#78. My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.
Adrian Grenier
#79. Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.
Michael Josephson
#80. I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.
Julie Delpy
#82. The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.
Michael J. Gelb
#83. Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
John C. Maxwell
#84. This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.
Yo-Yo Ma
#85. Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.
Oliver DeMille
#86. Use your past as one of your mentors.
Jim Rohn
#87. When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.
John Logan
#88. I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
Larry Fitzgerald
#89. My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#90. If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.
Brian Krzanich
#92. 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
#93. They had become unofficial mentors to the two aspiring teenage journalists,
John Feinstein
#94. Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart.
Jon Gordon
#95. I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
Warren Farrell
#97. I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
Mary Barra
#100. Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
Richard Foster
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