Mentoring Quotes - Page 2

• I think a mentor gets a lot of satisfaction in a couple of ways. They're doing something constructive, so they feel good about that. And when they see the results of this, with the young people they're working with, it's very, very rewarding.

  John Glenn

  Couple, Thinking, People

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• One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

  Dick Gregory

  Happiness, Helping Others, People

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• Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

  Jeff Myers

  Caring, Adults, Young

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• I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.

  Usher

  Believe, Thinking, Mentor

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• I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it's how many others you have helped along the way.

  Darrell Green

  Real, Thinking, Goal

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

  Edward de Bono

  Mentor, Different, Digging

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• One way Great Teams can connect their team members together is through the glue of mentoring.

  Don Yaeger

  Team, Together

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

  Lou Holtz

  Lying, Coaching, Matter

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• I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

  Anne Sweeney

  Encouragement, Thinking, Talking

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• I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Giving, Joy

  "Michelle Obama: Your First Lady (Special Recognition)". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2009.

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• You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

  Robert Anthony

  Action, Grows, Consequence

  Robert Anthony (1986). “The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence”, p.44, Penguin

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• Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

  Chip R. Bell

  People, Happens

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.48, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

  Clark Moustakas

  Change, Strength, Being Yourself

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• I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Way, I've Learned

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• Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Perfection, Coaching, Details

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• There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in their life who's a good male influence and support. There's no cookie-cutter way of raising children and no family is the same, but the most important thing is that children are loved, supported and cared for, whether it's coming from a relative or a friend or a grandfather or a good school teacher. Anyone. Children just need good examples and mentoring to teach them and show them how to do things.

  Liv Tyler

  Teacher, Children, Father

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• To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

  Deepak Chopra

  Mentor, Want, Needs

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• The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.

  Antwone Fisher

  Meaningful, People, Mentor

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

  Vince Lombardi

  Believe, Heart, Emotional

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.91, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.

  Ruth Whitman

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer

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• The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

  Myles Munroe

  Replacements, Manifestation, True Leader

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• Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

  Indra Nooyi

  Coaching, Way, Helping

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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