Top 290 Mentors Quotes & Sayings

I have phenomenal mentors who guide me to maximize my effectiveness.

I had many mentors, and they didn't know it.

I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

My mentors were very good.

Instead of looking to male mentors, saying this is the paradigm of a candidate and it looks like this, we're suddenly finding that there's some powerful female mentors - and they look a little different.

Mentors and sponsors are beneficial for personal and career growth.

I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.

The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.

Z-Bo, Zach Randolph, is like my big brother - one of my mentors.

Some mentors are more challenging than others.

I have so many mentors. I'm really lucky to be surrounded by incredible mentors, whether it be Solange Knowles or Gloria Steinem or Ava DuVernay, there are so many awesome people in my life, and so I'm lucky for them to kind of have fostered my identity as I grow into myself.

I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as a filmmaker. I went to film school; I was a PA on a lot of projects and I worked so hard, you know, you're young and I learned from different mentors. And luck put me in the position to work with amazing people. One of my mentors by the name of Little X, who took me under his wing after I came out of film school and moved to New York. I worked in videos for Jay-Z, Pharrell to Busta Rhymes and Wyclef. I quickly realized how much I wanted to make films instead of music videos.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

I was raised by the state of California, and then various families and mentors.

Without my mentors there is no Misty.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

During my training in pediatrics, I benefited from the talent and wisdom of women mentors.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you're with them, you're being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.

My dad, he's a great father, but he's also been one of my mentors.

One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.

I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a more democratic, pluralistic direction. You now find a lot of people who are looking outside of the mainstream of the history of art for their mentors. Maybe not heroes, but mentors.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

Mentors are like friendships.

It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.

It's important to look for mentors all around you.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely

Everyone I've worked with - in my eyes - they are mentors and heroes.

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

I was lucky to have amazing mentors like Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson.

There's just nothing to me so invaluable in my business, but in many businesses, as great mentors.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

At TechStars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors to take a Socratic approach and to provide data rather than decisions.

Mentors don't just have to be people who are older or more experienced than you are. Mentors are people who really care about you, know you, and want to offer feedback and advice to help you grow.

Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.

I think I will never stop having mentors.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

I'm not a person of mentors.

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

Pop Staples was one of my true mentors.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.