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You will feel much more driven and uplifted after reading these inspiring mentor quotes! Mentors are important in our lives because, without them, we would not be able to discover our hobbies or develop our abilities.
Mentors are filled with empathy, which is why we gravitate toward them. They are excellent listeners, counselors, and communicators. If you are just starting out in your job, a mentor can help you navigate the pitfalls and in depth knowledge. They provide you with honest feedback and assist you in achieving achievement!
If you want to be or find a mentor, here are some wonderful quotations with ideas, tactics, and encouragement! You don't have to be clueless for much longer.
75 Motivational Quotes for Mentors for Guiding You
- 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
- Mentors don’t necessarily have the answers, but they can help you find your own answers. –Amelia Rope
- A truly great mentor is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.The mediocre mentor tells. The good mentor explains. The superior mentor demonstrates. The greatest mentors inspire! –Lucia Ballas Traynor
- A great mentor helps you to achieve what seems impossible. –Mariela Dabbah
- Find a great mentor who believes in you; your life will change forever! –Bill Walsh
- Your mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely. –Robert Kiyosaki
- The worst way to get a mentor is to go find one. The best way is to see the one that’s already there. –Jeff Goins
- Mentors are all around us. Who makes you feel confident, inspired, focused, and is willing to share their experience? –Anna Letitia Cook
- A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. –Oprah Winfrey
- We must find time to stop and thank those the people who make a difference in our lives. –John F Kennedy
- Teaching is calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way holy – angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. –Jeannette Walls
- True leadership is servant hood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions. –Dave Ramsey
- Regardless of our titles or years of experience, we can learn from each other. Through mentoring and by being open to learn where we can reach our ultimate potential. –Lily Benjamin
- My mentor said, ‘Let’s go do it,’ not ‘You go do it.’ How powerful when someone says, ‘Let’s!’ – Jim Rohniser by empowering you to identify wisdom in contradictions. Life is full of them, and what you generally perceive as the truth may be false.
- A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. – Zig Ziglar
- Tell me, and I forget, teach me, and I may remember, involve me, and I learn. –Benjamin Franklin
- Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher. –Oprah Winfrey
- A mentor empowers the person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained. –Shawn Hitchcock
- A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning, joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view. –Oprah Winfrey
- Every great achiever is inspired by a mentor. –Lailah Gifty Akita
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. –Albert Einstien
- Are you my mentor? If someone has to ask this question, the answer is probably no. When someone finds the right mentor, it is obvious. –Sheryl Sandberg
- Successful people turn everyone who can help them into sometime mentors! –John Crosby
- Teacher? I prefer the term educational Rockstar.Teachers are like road signs because even when they tell you what to do, you still get lost.Teachers are mind engineers!Teachers are life directors! Never undermine a teacher! –Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- 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
- Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. –John C. Crosby
- Mentor and coach others whenever you can. Your teaching will deepen your own learning. –Lee J. Colan
- Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. –Timothy Gallwey
- A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness. –Elaine MacDonald
- Mentor someone whose hindsight can become your foresight. A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be. –Tom Landry
- Never forget who helped you out while everyone else was making excuses.Every kid needs a mentor; every human needs a mentor. –Donovan Bailey
- Women helping each other— coaching, mentoring, providing tips is a great way for us to be our own force. –Indra Nooyi
- A coach is someone who can give correction without resentment. –John Wooden
- My favorite mentor unleashed my passions, channeled my energy, guided my growth, and encouraged my success. –Anna Letitia Cook
- Mentorship is the key to unlocking each of our entrepreneurial spirits. –Richard Branson
- When you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you’ve come. Everything you’ve faced, all the battles you’ve won ane all the fears you have overcome has prepared you for this moment. – Scott Fitzgerald
- A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself and helps bring it out of you. –Bob Proctor
- My mentor had genuinely had my best interests and my goal for growth at heart. As a result, that mentorship changed my career path. –Lyn Immerman
- Getting a mentor is a shortcut to success. –Bo Sanchez
- Mentoring is a two—way street. The mentor gets wiser while mentoring, and the mentee gains knowledge through his/her mentor. –Marisol Gonzalez
- It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and, therefore, fallible; it makes our own short—comings more tenable. –John Wooden
- If you ask any successful business person, they will always have had a great mentor at some point along the road. –Richard Branson
- The heart of mentoring getting the most out of life isn’t about how much you keep for yourself, but how much you pour into others. –David Stoddard.
- n is not only who can be your mentor but also who can you mentor? –Mariela Dabbah
- "If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before." — J Loren Norris
- "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better." — Steve Jobs
- "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." — Winston Churchill.
- “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.” — Bob Proctor
- “Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” — Samuel Taylor
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
- “Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” — John Crosby
- “My mentor said, ‘Let’s go do it,’ not ‘You go do it.’ How powerful when someone says, ‘Let’s!’” — Jim Rohn
- “My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.” — Steve Maraboli.
- “Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon” — E.M.Forster
- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” — Steven Spielberg
- “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” — Whoopi Goldberg
- “You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.” — Diana Ross
- “Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow”. — Michael Meade
- “I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business.” — Richard Branson
- “I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people — that's important to me.” — Maria Taylor
- “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
- “If you are ‘too busy’ most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.” — Martin Zwilling
- “Mentoring can have a profound impact on your personal growth, but you have to be open to change.” — Lois Zachary
- “Mentoring is a two—way street. You get out what you put in.” — Steve Washington“Mentoring is motivated by love.” — JA Perez
- “Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.” — Jeff Myers
- “Small business, you can give them capital, but when they often need as much is mentoring, advice, and help with their business plan.” — Karen Mills
- “The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.” — John C. Maxwell
- “The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.” — Myles Munroe
- “What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you can be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.” — John Wooden
- “What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner’s fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy—turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.” — Oliver DeMille
- Most busy people want to mentor someone great. –Ramit Sethi
- If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there. – J Loren Norris
