Quotes About Mentorship

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

I love to help kids, especially spinners, in South Africa. You won't see many guys bowling legspin, so I want to try to see if I can develop another Imran Tahir.

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

the man who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader.

Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.

The climb upward will be easier if you take others along with you.

The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The

Broadly speaking, there are two types of people in the world. One type is known as leaders, and the other as followers

Long before I had ever written a line for publication, or endeavored to deliver a speech in public, I followed the habit of reshaping my own character, by trying to imitate the nine men whose lives and life-works had been most impressive to me. These nine men were Emerson, Paine, Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon, Ford, and Carnegie. Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary council meeting with this group whom I called my "Invisible Counselors.

An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader.

The leader who fears that one of his followers may take his position is practically sure to realize that fear sooner or later. The able leader trains understudies to whom he may delegate, at will, any of the details of his position. Only in this way may a leader multiply himself and prepare himself to be at many places, and give attention to many things at one time.

Setting an example presupposes that someone will be left to learn from it. It's pointless when there's no one to set an example for.

You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement

She knew the greatest gift she could give her mentor was to listen.

I can't believe that you're being taught by the Scythe Curie. The Grandma of Death! Grande Dame, not grandma.

Some of my people are well on their way to becoming formidable practitioners (like Alex, but best not to tell the little oik that).

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

If you're misleading the little homies, you ain't no real big homie to me.

I miss my coach. I love my coach. I miss Chuck Noll.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.

With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts.

If I can be a role model and leader, I am happy to do that.