Mentoring Quotes

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.

~ Antonio J. Méndez

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

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

~ Catherine The Great

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

—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however dimly, cast light on their hearts, tell them that tale; and you shall name the unspeakable names of your kind, and in that naming, in each such telling, they will falter a step to the light.—For only with pride may a man prosper. With pride, all things follow. Without he have pride he is a shadowy skulk whose season is night.

~ Jamie O'neill

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.

~ Earl R. Smith Ii

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

~ Peter F. Drucker

I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.

~ Cordelia Jensen