Mentors Quotes

Always dare to be in the company of those stronger than you. Sooner or later, you will be stronger than those who were once stronger than you, but unfortunately, they joined the company of those who are weaker than them!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Remember as there are people that can help you to roll the boat of your dreams, there are also people who can drill holes under that boat to make it sink.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Pick a mentor. Select and be closer to someone who is there to talk to you, inspire you, and be on you, monitoring your affairs and movements for the best reasons and ensuring that your dreams become fruitful.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People inspire people. That’s the more reason why mentor-ship is a critical tool for dreams accomplishment.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your dreams get perfect assistant if it goes connecting with great people.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

The role that people play in your life can determine how far you can go.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There are no self made heroes or leaders. No matter how rugged or self assured, everyone requires a cast of players - friends, mentors, lovers, critics, villains and supporters - who call, invite, seduce, goad and encourage them to finally step into their true power. We are all heroes and leaders in some way, and we all need each other.

~ Jacob Nordby

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

People can poison people, people can also promote people. People can push people up, people can also pull people down. Don’t just follow people cheerfully, follow people carefully!

~ 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

Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Study whatever you were told very carefully. Make the best choices for the best brands and discard the rest.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Every great soul had great mentors.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can dream it up, you can team it up.

~ Richie Norton

If you can dream it up. You can team it up.

~ Richie Norton

Every great soul had a great mentor.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With great inspiration, every man can reach their highest potential.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great mentors give great advice.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Young people will always need mentors to guide and support them.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Remember, you are the true guru of yourself. You are therefore always with Guru - your soul. However, at various stages you meet mentors. Mentors are like lighthouse who supports navigation in a journey called life. But, it is the innocence, vision, and purity of yourself (Guru within) determines the degree of success you can achieve.

~ Vishwas Chavan

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

Many pastors have been reduced to secular mentors and coaches in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.

~ John Paul Warren

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

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

~ Dave Eggers

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

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

~ Junot Díaz

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

~ James Levine

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

~ Kate Moss

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