Mentoring Quotes

The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

Steve Knox

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Rob Lowe

A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, growing up with at least one adult on the scene who can convincingly fake being all-powerful, omniscient, and unfailingly protective for a kid's first decade or so, providing an invaluable canopy of reachable stars and monsters that are comfortably make-believe.

Ron Suskind

Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

Paul C. Nagel

Nobody is, was, will be born smart. But for you to be smart, and act smart, you need to think smart always. It is not a subject of your alma mater, it is the side and fries of what the genius within can comprehend, comply and captivate. In every beginning has a twelve kick start, promotion of the relativity of your new thinking, the story of a bunch of math and the spirit of a wonder apple.

Prince Akwarandu

I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn’t work harder at a person’s recovery than she is willing to work.

Pam Farrel

Learning to accept help from others is not a sign of weakness it's a badge of courage reflecting mutual trust between the giver and the receiver.

Donavan Nelson Butler

Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to get to know the most exceptional scholars and question them closely. "Ask them about their tutors, manner of teaching. Observe what books lie on their tables. Fall into questions of literature, science, or what you will.

David McCullough

Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

Leonard Sax

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

Gary Patton

True Mentors, don't make their mentees a clone of themselves

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

Gregory of Nyssa

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

Ron Suskind

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

J.R. Moehringer

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.

William Shakespeare

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

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their own. An admissions officer might bias her criteria slightly away from the Résumé God and toward the quirky kid. A student may privately wrestle with taking a summer camp job instead of an emotionally vacuous but résumé-padding internship. But these struggles are informal, isolated and semi-articulate.

David Brooks

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

Alexandra Robbins

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

James MacDonald

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

Plato

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads.

Thomas Hughes

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

David Skinner

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

Timothy J. Keller

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.

Martin Sheen

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

J.M. Barrie

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

David Halberstam

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Henrik Bering

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.

Caitlin Keiper

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

Will Durant

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

David Halberstam

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

David Brooks

That's the whole point of being 20. You could be a lot of things. I am much older than you are. I AM things.

Frasier

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

George Lucas

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Richard Brookhiser

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

Richard Brookhiser

With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful.

Frank Bruni

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

Richard Brookhiser

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.

Adam Grant

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali

Davis Miller

I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

E.M. Forster

Mentorships, similar to other important relationships, usually end. Ideological differences and a need to chart a personal path might preclude parties from maintaining the original balance that stabilized a mentoring relationship. Conflict between an apprentice and his master is not always bad; in fact, it is almost inevitable, if the apprentice’s destiny is to exceed the accomplishments of the master.

Kilroy J. Oldster

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

Thomas Hughes

you cannot be friends either with boy or man unless you give yourself away in the process, and Mr. Pembroke did not commend this. He, for “personal intercourse,” substituted the safer “personal influence,” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them.Originally Rickie had meant to help boys in the anxieties that they undergo when changing into men: at Cambridge he had numbered this among life’s duties. But here is a subject in which we mustinevitably speak as one human being to another, not as one who has authority or the shadow of authority, and for this reason the elder school-master could suggest nothing but a few formulae. Formulae, like kindly traps, were not in Rickie’s line, so he abandoned thesesubjects altogether and confined himself to working hard at what was easy.

E.M. Forster

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Pat Conroy

The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.

Don Wilton

Writing can be taught or learned in the vacuum. We must say to students in every area of knowledge: "This is a how other people have written about this subject. Read it; study it; think about it. You can do it too.

William Zinsser

Jesus' simple poetic words are delivered casually and gently. Jesus prefers to explain a difficult concept over time, never talking down to His followers, patiently letting the words soak in until they understand them fully.

Roma Downey

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Rebecca Goldstein

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

David Kahn

I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.

Cordelia Jensen

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Peter F Drucker

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Earl R Smith II

My mentors inspired and encourage to fulfill my highest potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.

Lailah Gifty Akita

—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however dimly, cast light on their hearts, tell them that tale; and you shall name the unspeakable names of your kind, and in that naming, in each such telling, they will falter a step to the light."—For only with pride may a man prosper. With pride, all things follow. Without he have pride he is a shadowy skulk whose season is night.

Jamie O'Neill

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.

Thomas Hughes

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

Pat Conroy

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