#Mentorship Quotes

“Our chief want in life, is,someone who shall make us do what we can.This is the service of a friend.With him we are easily great.”

“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.”

“The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.”

“Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.”

“When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.”

“A true leader produces more leaders.”

“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.”

“The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.”

“There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.”

“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.”

“The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.”

“The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.”

“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.”

“Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.”

“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.”

“You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes”

“I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.”

“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.”

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

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”

“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”

“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.”

“How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.”

“He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.”

“Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.”

“The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.”

“You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be”

“I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.”

“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.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

“The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.”

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

“The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.”

“If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.”

“Those having torches will pass them on to others.”

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

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

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

“After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.”

“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.”

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.”

“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.”

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

“She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.”

“I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.”

“great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”

“For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.”

“A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.”

“One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.”