Mentor Quotes

Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I suppose. The parents just shook their heads and smiled. I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar.

~ Tom Wolfe

A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person to also become an expert through support, advice, and involvement in character building opportunities.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When searching for help, look for the one that will push, not the one that will pull! Your machinery needs a pusher; just avoid every puller and you’ll keep going forward!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Understand that you can’t achieve your dreams if you don’t connect with people who guide you to improve on upon the skills you have.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The kind of dreams you have determines the kind of people to get connected to.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Football Coaches do play football matches, their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in the scores of the games they monitor and mentor!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never be disobedient; take a coach, take a mentor and be instructed!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

My mother is my pastor She teaches me the BibleI love her as my mentorShe tells me to be humble!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It's iron that can sharpen iron, wood cannot do that.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

The question is not can you wear your father's shoes?. The question is can you walk in your father's shoes?. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.

~ Stella Payton

Daniel, I was asked of a budding author, how do you know if your story is on track? My answer: I start by knowing my intention, my target. Then, with purpose, I write the scene that unfolds before me, as faithfully as is human. - Daniel LaMonte

~ Daniel Lamonte

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Morality is the only way of life that guarantees happiness. Whoever doesn't abide by it should never be taken as a role model or mentor, because it's obvious they don't have any positive purpose in life.

~ Hafiz

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.

~ Charles Dickens

Humanitarian Logistics is about mobilization and movement of resources for disaster preparedness, disaster response and disaster recovery

~ Victor Manan Nyambala

What a wise person teaches is the smallest part of what they give. The totality of their life, of the way they go about it in the smallest details, is what gets transmitted.

~ David Brooks

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

~ Bill Courtney

I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day…!

~ James A. Murphy

Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

~ Kishore Bansal

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.

~ Earl R. Smith Ii

Every week I want to learn something new. And every week I want to teach someone something new.

~ Chef Edward Lee

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

when we work together, we achieve more. Character is not a concept that is simply spoken about, but actually manifests itself through our actions.

~ Jose A. Aviles

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

~ Gary Patton

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

~ Bill Courtney

To say that nothing is true is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile and that we must be the shepherds of our civilization. To say that everything is permitted is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious of tragic.

~ Ezio Auditore Da Firenze

You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won’t have the same experience unless you climb yourself.

~ Richie Norton

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn’t work harder at a person’s recovery than she is willing to work.

~ Pam Farrel

The Holy Spirit is the most influential mentor in your life. He is always willing to teach and guide you in all Truth.

~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Searching for a mentor is similar to searching for a spouse: you two need to share common values, concerns, experiences, communication style, and, of course, have time to invest into meaningful conversations with one another.

~ Anna Stevens

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

~ Jake Gyllenhaal