Quotes About Mentorship

As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

The man who walks with Henslow.

Children need adult men in their lives.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

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.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, 'Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?' And I said, 'None.' He then asked, 'Who sold you on that plan?'

Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.