Mentorship Quotes

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Leaders attract potential leaders.

Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.

In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.

Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

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?’

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Coaching is about helping young people have a chanceto succeed. There is no more awesome responsibilitythan that. One of the greatest honors a person can haveis being called 'Coach.'

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

I don't think my father was my mentor.

Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.