100 Quotes About Mentoring

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that. . Tyler Perry

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. Charles Dickens

Mentoring is an archetypal activity that has timeless elements which can connect us to the universal ground where nature renews itself and culture becomes reimagined. Youth and elder meet where the pressure of the future meets the presence of the past. Old and young are opposites that secretly identify with each other for neither fits well into the mainstream of life. Michael Meade

It became by 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 today that will make the difference for their rest of their lives. Unknown

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). Tony Dungy

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. Bob Goshen

When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy. Karen Lopez McWilliams

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain. Charles Dickens

Success will teach you who your real friends are. Germany Kent

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy. Germany Kent

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

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment. Lailah Gifty Akita

To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart. Rasheed Ogunlaru

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight. Rasheed Ogunlaru

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example. Germany Kent

Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential. Lailah Gifty Akita

Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field. Lailah Gifty Akita

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor. Lailah Gifty Akita

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity. Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve. Stacey Radin

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience. Vineet Raj Kapoor

If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before. J. Loren Norris

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens. Steve Goodier

Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table". Michaelson Williams

Life is hope. Hope is faith. Faith is believe. Believe is possibilities. Possibility is miraculous. Miraculous is divine. Divine is supernatural. Supernatural is spiritual. Lailah Gifty Akita

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin

In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training. Marcia Conner

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

He who want to be served must first know how to serve. Lailah Gifty Akita

Conflict is just another chance for agreement. Ken Poirot

God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a mentor! Israelmore Ayivor

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

Leadership: Converting dreams into goals and goals into success. T Jay Taylor

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted. David Halberstam

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever. Chris Jirika

Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field. Bernard Kelvin Clive

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves — the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal. Eleanor Roosevelt

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem. Unknown

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible. Brooke Hauser

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

Let us do our best whilst we live for another tomorrow is coming when whilst we are long gone, another group of people shall come to either suffer from our worst or enjoy and build upon our best. Let us run whole heatedly today with all alacrity for another generation shall come for the baton from our hands to either blame us or congratulate us on how we lived the dream and journeyed in life through the good and the bad times; another generation shall come to ponder over our footprints as a good or a bad lesson for them! Let us run with all necessary zeal such that when we hand over the baton, our next generation will have no reason but to soldier on with courage, enthusiasm and absolute commitment to get to the finishing line with a great accomplishment and a noble story worth pondering over and over! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts. Paul C. Nagel

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion Jennifer Senior

If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends, it is supportive, accepting parents who not only love their children unconditionally, but also don't make them feel as if their idiosyncrasies qualify as "conditions" in the first place. Alexandra Robbins

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them. Alexandra Robbins

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. "I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I'm weird, " Eli said later. "It's like she thinks I'm a freak or something. No matter what I do, it's not 'normal' enough for her. Alexandra Robbins

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

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless. T Jay Taylor

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child. Kara G. Durbin

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be. Carson McCullers

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path. Scott Farris

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here. Steve Stockman

The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls. Lailah Gifty Akita

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people — especially kids. Susan Cain

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

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root. Stefan Fatsis

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it. John Updike

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

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another. Thomas Hughes

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile. Lailah Gifty Akita

My mentors inspired and encourage to fulfill my highest potential. Lailah Gifty Akita

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. Unknown

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. Peter F. Drucker

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

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

Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully. Roma Downey

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

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

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. Pat Conroy

You cannot be friends either with boy or man unless you give yourself away in the process, and Mr. Pembroke did not commend this. He, for “personal intercourse, ” substituted the safer “personal influence, ” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them. Originally Rickie had meant to help boys in the anxieties that they undergo when changing into men: at Cambridge he had numbered this among life’s duties. But here is a subject in which we mustinevitably speak as one human being to another, not as one who has authority or the shadow of authority, and for this reason the elder school-master could suggest nothing but a few formulae. Formulae, like kindly traps, were not in Rickie’s line, so he abandoned thesesubjects altogether and confined himself to working hard at what was easy. E.m. Forster

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness. Thomas Hughes

Mentorships, similar to other important relationships, usually end. Ideological differences and a need to chart a personal path might preclude parties from maintaining the original balance that stabilized a mentoring relationship. Conflict between an apprentice and his master is not always bad; in fact, it is almost inevitable, if the apprentice’s destiny is to exceed the accomplishments of the master. Kilroy J. Oldster

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali Davis Miller

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully. E.m. Forster

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own. Richard Brookhiser

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates. Richard Brookhiser

With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful. Frank Bruni

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional. Richard Brookhiser

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you. Adam Grant

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow. George Lucas

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do. David Halberstam

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for. David Brooks

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things. Frasier

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves. Caitlin Keiper