Quotes About Mentoring

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Q. What is the difference between coaching and mentoring? A. Coaching generally has to do with success in the current position, with some emphasis—say, 10 to 15 percent—on the next position. Mentoring is the reverse. Most of the emphasis is on the future, probably 80 to 85 percent; only 15 to 20 percent is focused on current performance.

I don't think older Christians can ever fully know what an important role they play in the affirmation of younger believers. When you're just a youth, it means so much to have someone who's farther along the road say to you, "I see something in you, and I want you to be encouraged in it.

Young dreams may be wild ones, but they are never corrected by ridiculing them. They must be steered by a loving voice that has earned the right to be heard, not one enforced by means of power.

my aunt Neva was the guardian and gardener of the metaphors that became me. She saw to it that I was fed all the best fairy tales, poetry, cinema, and theater, so that I was continually in a fever about life and eager to write it all down.

I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.

Helping your son develop his sense of purpose requires beginning at a very different place than his dad-or granddad. His dad or granddad was told his sense of purpose. Your job is to help your son find his sense of purpose.

If today's churches, companies and organizations want to be thriving tomorrow, they have an obligation to coach and mentor the new generation of leaders.

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Because she was a natural teacher, she could not resist explaining to people better ways of doing things.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Disciple making is about comprehensive training in obedience leading to reproduction and multiplication.

Grande Ideia: Formadores de Heróis sabem que se focarmos somente na adição, nunca chegaremos à multiplicação.

Create an environment in which your people want to train and be inoculated. Do not kill your warriors. Do not send losers off the training site. Do not talk trash about your students. Punish in private, praise in public.

Successful leaders look beyond their own field to discover new approaches, learn best practices and push the margins. Then they pass on what they have learned.

The same station in life, one should note, in which the youthful Houston had stood in relation to Andrew Jackson. One of the most remarkable but least remarked on facts of Sam Houston's life is that he habitually collected about him young protégés and informal wards, even as Jackson had done.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,To teach the young idea how to shoot.

But I have undertaken this series with the feeling that I must not be afraid of shaming myself, and that I should try telling myself the things I am always telling my juniors.

Perhaps I created the monster Ramsay, who ended up as a TV personality screaming at celebrities on 'Hell's Kitchen,' doing to them what I had done to him.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

Phil Neville has been great in terms of the pointers he has given me.

When I was in Buffalo, Fred Jackson was you know, I would say he was a big mentor of mine and when I was in Miami, I probably picked apart Brian Hartline, Davone Bess, those guys.

For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.