Quotes About Mentoring

Leadership means you see the best in people and coach them to success. Leadership means you are the most positive person you know and an individual dedicated to building relationships.

big people are the ones who make others feel bigger.

Cuando el alumno está listo, aparecen los maestros

Washington possessed the outstanding judgment, sterling character, and clear sense of purpose needed to guide his sometimes wayward protégé; he saw that the volatile Hamilton needed a steadying hand.

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.

Until all teachers are geniuses and enthusiasts, nobody will learn anything, except what they teach themselves.

We cannot hope to utter anything worth saying, unless we read and inwardly digest the utterances of our betters.

You can't minister to everyone on your own. You must help others become ministers. Encourage your leaders to develop relationships with students.

He who walks with the wise will be wise, Scripture saith, and he who walks with the witty will eventually start to pop off himself.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.' (Prov. 27:17) In a similar way that conversation sharpens a man's countenance, conversation with men throughout history sharpens a man's mind... If this is the case, and it is, then a point should be made to seek out profitable companions in a disciplined fashion throughout your life with books.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

Never leave a child to their own devices. Unless it's a piano.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.