Mentor Quotes and Sayings

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

“In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.” — Donald Sadoway

“In learning you will teach, in teaching you will learn.” – Phil Collins

“You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” – Stephen Covey

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.  Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” – Wilferd Peterson

“Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.” – Timothy Ferriss

“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

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them.” – Earvin Johnson

“Mentoring brings us together – across generation, class, and often race – 
in a manner that forces us to acknowledge our interdependence, to appreciate, 
in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, that ‘we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, 
tied to a single garment of destiny.’ 
In this way, mentoring enables us to participate in the essential 
but unfinished drama of reinventing community, 
while reaffirming that there is an important role for each of us in it.” – Marc Freedman

“The six essential leadership attributes: 
set high standards; live your standards and mentor those who follow; 
create and share a vision; make the hard choices when necessary; 
be visible and outfront; and instill hope in those who follow.” – John Di Frances

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” – Rachel Carson

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou