Quotes About Mentorship

We have to have positive male role models.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

I would like to be a positive force for young girls.

I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.

Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

Learn from the best, so one day you can become the best.

Don't just create a change for yourself, be a centre of change to others.

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

The best teachers are those that can influence even the poorest of all learners.

My greatness shall never be measured by my actions or accomplishments, but rather by those of my son's guided by my teachings.

A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own.

There is a transcendent power in example.

Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. The

Hang out with people who are better than you and you cannot help but improve." Pabrai acts on this advice to a degree that would horrify many people. "When I meet someone for the first time, I evaluate them afterwards and say, 'Will it make me better or worse to have a relationship with this person?'" If the answer is worse, he says, "I'll cut him out.

The gifted student who has studied under a great teacher would almost certainly adopt a less independent tone in his first papers, because he would have the attitude of a pupil to his senior, besides a deference due to appreciation of his senior's achievements. A student without deference after distinguished tuition is almost always mediocre.

your conversation consists mostly of descriptions of how busy you are. Suddenly you're a chilly mortal, going into hyper-people-pleasing mode anytime you're around your boss. You spend much of your time mentor shopping, trying to find some successful older person who will answer all your questions and solve all your problems.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?