Quotes About Mentors Teachers

#1. 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

#2. The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

R.A. Lafferty

#3. Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government.

George W. Bush

#4. The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Every great soul had a great mentor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. 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

#7. Good teachers are good mentors.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Stieg Larsson

#10. No more can this Angel teach her,
Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

Barbara Castle

#12. My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

Umberto Eco

#13. 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

#14. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle.

#15. The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Novalis

#16. Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly ...

John Stott

#17. 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

#18. I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can't. I want to be a billionaire.

James Packer

#19. A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

Jay McInerney

#20. Connect with people who are going where you are going. Don't hate people. The person you may need later may be likened to the bridge you have destroyed after crossing it. You'll need that bridge when returning.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Max Anders

#22. I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

James Levine

#23. Every great soul had great mentors.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

Martha Beck

#25. 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

#26. SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. 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

#28. If somebody was blind his entire life, just seeing a color, any color, would be fascinating even if it was just a dull color to a healthy eye.

A.B. Whelan

#29. Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

Ellen McLaughlin

#30. Great teachers are great mentors.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.

Elizabeth Berg