Quotes About Mentorship

Kim Il Sung prepared Kim Jong Il for decades to be his successor and made it very clear from the beginning, 'This is my son and he's going to lead the country' and that took more than 10 years - almost 20 years.

I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Great men exist that there may be greater men.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

We all need someone higher, wiser, older to tell us we're not crazy after all, that what we're doing is all right.

The boy looked down at his feet deep in the rivers, in the fields of wheat, in the wind that already was rushing him out of the town. He looked up at the old man, his eyes burning, his mouth moving, but no sound came out.

Do not underestimate the role you may play in clearing the obstacles in someone's spiritual journey.

If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired to teach at a writing workshop solely because of his name's ability to attract students, rather than because of any teaching skill. You should not have to grapple with someone who secretly thinks you should be writing about his life rather than your own.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

My sons weren't sure what I was getting at. It doesn't matter anyway, because it won't be an option for them. They don't have a Tom Petty. They're borrowing mine.

We can teach what we know, but ultimately, we will reproduce what we are.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

Education is the mother of leadership.

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You can't learn from those who can't teach.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be as good an actor as Patrick, as cool as Frakes, and as funny as Brent. From time to time, one of them would say something to me that made me feel like I'd taken a step in that direction, and it always meant the world to me. I loved it when Brent would joke around with me, because it made me feel like I was the peer I so desperately wanted to be, instead of the clueless teenager I knew I was.

As Jack Welch, the famous former CEO of General Electric, once said, "Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.