Quotes About Mentoring

When I started at my first church," Tom went on, "I was on fire with everything I wanted to do. I moved in, opened my office door, and one by one each staff person and maybe half the members came in and complained about everyone else. I called my mentor and said, 'I can't take it! I have ideas! I want to get to work, not be a wailing wall!' And he said, 'This is your work. Listening to people. Managing people.

one creates a discipling culture, modeled on the life and ministry of Jesus, by accident. No one accidentally creates disciples. Discipleship is an intentional pursuit.

Huddles work because they expose people to the learning of a group rather than only one-on-one mentoring. What a member gets to see is not only how the leader is discipling them, but also how the leader is discipling other people as well. Because each person is different, different skills and practices are needed to disciple various personality types.

all you barely see are sparks from those pennies they won't let go of. You must invest in yourself, in education, training, coaching, mentoring, health, and systems and tools, allowing you to Work Smarter, Not Harder. Most the super-extremist hardcore tightwads who I know seem to never be satisfied or happy. They just want more for free. If

Sometimes our jobs as teachers is not to open their minds. Sometimes we have to thaw them.

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

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

Have you ever used your neighbor's Wi-Fi when it wasn't on a password? If you have the opportunity to observe someone at work, you are getting mentoring out of them even if they are unaware or resistant. Make a list of the people you think would make the greatest mentors and try to get close enough to steal their Wi-Fi.

You take your mentoring where you can find it, even if it is not being offered to you. Have you ever used your neighbor's Wi-Fi when it wasn't on a password? If you have the opportunity to observe someone at work, you are getting mentoring out of them even if they are unaware or resistant. Make a list of the people you think would make the greatest mentors and try to get close enough to steal their Wi-Fi.

You take your mentoring where you can find it, even if it's not being offered to you.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

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

Your teacher would like to see you do better in life than him, rather than limiting your reasoning according to his teachings.

The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure.

Epictetus tells us, "It is not easy to gain the attention of young men who are soft, for you cannot get hold of soft cheese with a hook; but the naturally gifted, even if you turn them away, hold all the more firmly to reason.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

Résumés should have an acknowledgments page, where job applicants thank everyone in their lives who helped them.

A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.

The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.

The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.

Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.