Quotes on Mentoring

In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

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.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

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.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.

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 wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could