Mentors Sayings and Quotes

Mentors can be invaluable. Whether it’s an educator, a professional in your field or your favorite family role model, mentors can take our dreams and aspirations to the next level. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful mentors quotes.

Looking for sanctuary is not what it seems / A journey for all, in there distant dreams /The voice of a wise man / Singing in there hearts / Your pride is your mentor / Honor is where it all starts. Sanctus Ignis
Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely. Robert Kiyosaki
Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses. Daymond John
Young people will always need mentors to guide and support them. Lailah Gifty Akita
Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right. Andy Hargreaves
Mentorship is key to unlocking each of our entrepreneurial spirits. Richard Branson
Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda. Peter Woo
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable. John Wooden
God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you. Maria Shriver
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice. Renee Olstead
Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it. John Wooden
Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. Gerald Chertavian
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people. John C. Maxwell
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. John C. Crosby
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you. Bob Proctor
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life. Samuel Smiles
What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile. Vivek Wadhwa
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be. Allan Houston
I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be. Sean Paul
My mistakes have been my greatest mentors. Steve Maraboli
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.' Tony Dungy
Without a mentor in life, one can easily succumb to folly. Without a mentor in life, one can easily become self-centered, capricious and arrogant. Anonymous
One who refuses to seek the advice of others will eventually be led to a path of ruin. A mentor helps you to perceive your own weaknesses and confront them with courage. The bond between mentor and protege enables us to stay true to our chosen path until the very end. Anonymous
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. Romain Rolland
Mentoring is an indispensable requirement for an artist's growth. Not only are skills and experience shared, but there is value in the essential re-examination of one's own work and techniques. Jim Norman
More than mere teachers, mentors are often emancipators, freeing artists from poor technique, clouded vision and personal uncertainty. Paul Soderberg
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato
In learning you will teach, in teaching you will learn. Phil Collins
Sometimes you have to let a person go so they can grow. Because, over the course of their lives, it is not what you do for them, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them a successful human being. Marc Chernoff
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. John C. Maxwell