Quotes About Mentorship

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

Sometimes a friend can be a superb mentor. Often, someone who knows you well can offer candid feedback that would feel out of place—or even hostile—coming from a stranger.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

From the minute I saw you with the match in your hand I thought I could tell you anything on my mind. You'd be my model, but for words.

It was the responsibility of a senior fireman to teach as well as to do.

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

God has allowed me to communicate well with people who are younger than me.

Always a godfather, never a god.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.

Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

God wants to continue to appear to people through those who live like Jesus

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.