Quotes About Mentorship

She has been my guiding lamp many a time

He'd been generous, yes, but lots of people are generous; what made him different was the fact that he'd taken responsibility for me.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid... whose tattoo is on my arm... And he's younger than me. Yeah, I don't think I can handle this. Mindwipe me, somebody... please! Where's that dragon from Sanctuary? Simi, go get Max. I need him.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

You mean there's someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren't. (Adron)

I'm her godfather, with a heavy emphasis on the god part.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

I've worked with children all my life.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

I've always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that's my goal.

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.

First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead snakes, he chased me and I learned how to run.