Quotes About Mentorship

To develop will by yourself is extremely difficult. You require an example before you. If you would be an artist, surround yourself with good paintings and artists. If you would be a divine man, surround yourself with spiritual company.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

She took my hand and squeezed it. "You sold yourself short. You could've been more than a teacher and a coach." I returned the squeeze and said, "Listen to me, Savannah. There's no word in the language I revere more than teacher. None. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming one.

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

The reluctant leader doesn't merely give accolades to others. It is her true joy to see others awaken to their potential and exceed their greatest dreams. It is the hope of every good teacher to have students who take their work further than the teacher was able to do. To be surpassed is the ideal. To be replaced is the goal, not a sign of failure.

Anyone who wrestles with an uncertain future on behalf of others—anyone who uses her gifts, talents, and skills to influence the direction of others for the greater good—is a leader. No one is a mere follower. If you are a follower of God, for instance, then you are called to lead. Every believer is called to help someone grow into maturity—and such is the core calling of a leader.

Now the student has surpassed his teacher, Langdon thought. By several light-years.

A proper training and management culture will cultivate the leadership qualities desired.

If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life.

Successful business professionals seek out mentors.

Man's place is to be the first without being the last . . . . [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

WHAT you DO NOT KNOW YOURSELF, you CANNOT TEACH ANOTHER.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

The key to being a good mentor is to help people become more of who they already are – not to make them more like you.

It's like having a big sister around who's been able to show me some things about myself and about life and about this crazy sort of career thing.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

It is a serious fault in a man to dislike a boy

Do you know," asks Emerson, "the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and In that I am his pupil.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. . . . – Rumi (p. 123)

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Dietrich Eckart, twenty-one years older than Hitler, was often called the spiritual founder of National Socialism.