Quotes About Mentoring

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

I'm always learning new ways to improve my game from both players older and younger than me.

Men learn while they teach.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

The careful study of the Word has a goal, which is not the careful study of the Word. The objective is to discover Jesus and allow Him to change our trajectory. Meaning, a genuine study of the Word results in believers who feed poor people and open up their guest rooms; they're adopting and sharing, mentoring and intervening.

We must waive the lecture and embrace listening. What are they actually saying? What is confusing to them? What do they think? Where is the rub? Let's hear them, then engage them... Kids want to be mentored, not ruled.

Our kids need spiritual mentors, and if a new language and posture will lead them, then we better hit our knees, pray for humility, and beg God to help us raise disciples that love Him beyond our homes. We prioritize transformation over methodology, because our rules have a shelf life but loyalty to Jesus does not. Let's keep the baby and change the bathwater.

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

I think one of the greatest gifts that we can give anybody is the gift of one more honest adult in that person's life—whether [the recipient] be a child or an adult.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Even the most motivated and intelligent student will advance more quickly under the tutelage of someone who knows the best order in which to learn things, who understands and can demonstrate the proper way to perform various skills, who can provide useful feedback, and who can devise practice activities designed to overcome particular weaknesses.

It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all of us have that capacity to do it, just an hour a week, an hour every couple of weeks, and you can make a tremendous difference in a kid's life over their lifetime.

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

I was in Philadelphia when Kobe was a senior in high school and he used to come to all our practices and I would work him out.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Having a successful career as a player does not ensure that you will be a good coach, I have to prepare myself.

I know I want to do something with kids and help them become better mentally, physically and emotionally. They're the future after we're gone. So we have to prepare kids to be adults.