Quotes About Teachers And Mentors

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Every great soul had a great mentor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. 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

#6. Good teachers are good mentors.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#9. So am I going to get a zipper in my chest?

Kresley Cole

#10. If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.

Fannie Flagg

#11. 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.

#12. 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

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

Jay McInerney

#14. 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

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

James Levine

#16. The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Simone Weil

#17. Every great soul had great mentors.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Between 1914 and 1919 young men and women, disastrously pure in heart and unsuspicious of elderly self-interest and cynical exploitation, were continually re-dedicating themselves - as I did that morning in Boulogne - to an end that they believed, and went on trying to believe, lofty and ideal.

Vera Brittain

#19. Book 3: Fatal Consequences

Marie Force

#20. 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

#21. I have stolen the show many times.

Leigh Lezark

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Great teachers are great mentors.

Lailah Gifty Akita