Best 133 quotes in «mentoring quotes» category

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.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he has plenty of time to heroically imagine himself first. Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, growing up with at least one adult on the scene who can convincingly fake being all-powerful, omniscient, and unfailingly protective for a kid's first decade or so, providing an invaluable canopy of reachable stars and monsters that are comfortably make-believe.

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.

Ask and wait expectantly for the answer.

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him. Ali

Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more.

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

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.

A successful mentor is proud of his mentees, knowing that he has given a part of himself in their success.

A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes to the sort of growth Deresiewicz is talking about, everyone is on their own. An admissions officer might bias her criteria slightly away from the Résumé God and toward the quirky kid. A student may privately wrestle with taking a summer camp job instead of an emotionally vacuous but résumé-padding internship. But these struggles are informal, isolated and semi-articulate.

Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor.

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.

Good mentors are essential for a successful career.

Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.

God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high. Go, get a mentor!

Good teachers are good mentors.

Failure is a sign post of life, guiding us to the right paths.

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Great mentorship is priceless.

Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

Great mentors don't just tell you what you want to hear, they share from personal experience what you need to hear in light of your current situation and future goals.

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.

Great teachers are great mentors.

Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

How you coach them is how they're going to play.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here. They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.

It became by mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made today that will make the difference for their rest of their lives.