221 Quotes About Mentoring

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

She knew the greatest gift she could give her mentor was to listen.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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