Mentoring Quotes - Page 2

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

Carson McCullers

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.

If there is a single factor that spells out the difference between the cafeteria fringe headed for greatness and those doomed for low self-worth, even more than a caring teacher or a group of friends, it is supportive, accepting parents who not only love their children unconditionally, but also don't make them feel as if their idiosyncrasies qualify as "conditions" in the first place.

Alexandra Robbins

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

Alexandra Robbins

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers.

Catherine the Great

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. "I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I'm weird," Eli said later. "It's like she thinks I'm a freak or something. No matter what I do, it's not 'normal' enough for her.

Alexandra Robbins

What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion

Jennifer Senior

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

Let us do our best whilst we live for another tomorrow is coming when whilst we are long gone, another group of people shall come to either suffer from our worst or enjoy and build upon our best. Let us run whole heatedly today with all alacrity for another generation shall come for the baton from our hands to either blame us or congratulate us on how we lived the dream and journeyed in life through the good and the bad times; another generation shall come to ponder over our footprints as a good or a bad lesson for them! Let us run with all necessary zeal such that when we hand over the baton, our next generation will have no reason but to soldier on with courage, enthusiasm and absolute commitment to get to the finishing line with a great accomplishment and a noble story worth pondering over and over!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Antonio J. Méndez

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

David Halberstam

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.

God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a mentor!

Israelmore Ayivor

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table".

Michaelson Williams

Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.

J. Loren Norris

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.

It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.

The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Share your skills, inspire a change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Ask and wait expectantly for the answer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Failure is a sign post of life, guiding us to the right paths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Encouragement is a fire of flame. It refreshes the soul and revives the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He not only had the gift of “reading” men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

Success will teach you who your real friends are.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

Charles Dickens

When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy.

Karen Lopez McWilliams

Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

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