Quotes About Mentoring

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

You become great when you are eager to find and nourish greatness in the hearts of others.

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

Children need models rather than critics.

Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.

The leader's attitude helps determine the attitudes of the followers.

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.

Making others better is a core value of a great life.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be.

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

It's a pretty good rule to remember that every time we come into contact with another person, even though just walking a block, our job is to lead him to a higher plane than that one on which we found him.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

your conversation consists mostly of descriptions of how busy you are. Suddenly you're a chilly mortal, going into hyper-people-pleasing mode anytime you're around your boss. You spend much of your time mentor shopping, trying to find some successful older person who will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.

For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.

Dan's goal, taken from his mentor Richard Zeckhauser, is to get students to think probabilistically about the world. This means engaging with the challenge of understanding and accepting what 29% means in the context of a Trump victory, and fighting the brain's natural inclination to see things in binary terms.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here. They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.

People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

If you be faithful as an influencer, God will allow those you mentored you to become your mentees.