Mentor Quotes About Mentoring To Inspire You

Looking for inspirational quotes about mentoring? We have rounded up the best mentor quotes, sayings, wishes, and captions, (with images and pictures) which will inspire you to find yourself a teacher who will motivate you to set your goals and achieve your best.

Mentorship is a relationship where an individual (mentor) with more knowledge and experience passes what they have learned to their junior (mentee) in a certain field. A mentor acts as a role model to their mentee.

They provide motivation, guidance, and emotional support to their protege.

Everything cannot be learned from school, the library, or the internet. The right way of learning something is to learn from someone who knows – a mentor (who teaches you a new skill and guides you to excel in it).

Mentors play a very vital role in our lives because without them we will not be able to meet our full potential.

A mentor may help his junior in setting goals, exploring careers, identifying resources, and developing contacts. To have a promising career the best you can do is find an adviser for yourself.

Finding a wise teacher who will guide you in the right direction is not easy. But, once you find that person whom you can look up to, you will then be able to find your interests and explore your talents.

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There are times when all we need is a little push to go after our goals and achieve what we want to, a mentor is a perfect person who can motivate us to do so.

With proper mentoring the youth of today can be guided in the right direction to unleash their full potential.

There is no wrong place to find a mentor. It may be your boss who gives you guidance to grow in your career, a coach of a sporting team who motivates you to never give up, a teacher who pushes you to your real potential, or a confidant who you look up to.

These famous mentor quotes will not only inspire you but will motivate you to find a teacher who will challenge you, push you, and help you grow in your career and in life.

Famous Mentor Quotes

  1. “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” — Robert Frost

  2. “The great masters are great mentors.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

  3. “My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.” — Steve Maraboli
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    mentor quotes

  4. “We are what our great Mentors have taught us.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

  5. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” — Unknown

  6. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey

  7. “We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.” — Unknown

  8. “You are my inspiration. Thank you for being a wonderful friend, teacher, and mentor.” — Unknown

  9. “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey
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    mentoring quotes

  10. “A good mentor hopes you will move on. A great mentor knows you will.” — Leslie Higgins

  11. “Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” — E.M.Forster

  12. “Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done.” — Junot Diaz

  13. “A mentor is someone who shares their knowledge and experience to inspire others to reach their goals.” — Unknown


  14. “My mentor said, ‘Let’s go do it,’ not ‘You go do it.’ How powerful when someone says, ‘Let’s!’” — Jim Rohn

  15. “A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.” — Shawn Hitchcock

  16. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” — Anonymous

  17. “Mentors build mentors. Leaders build leaders. When you look at it closely, it’s really one and the same thing.” — Tony Dungy

  18. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams

  19. “We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.” — Epictetus

  20. “It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you – or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.” — Kobe Bryant

Inspirational Quotes About Mentorship

  1. “Great mentors give wise guidance.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

  2. “Getting a mentor is a shortcut to success.” — Bo Sanchez

  3. “Every great achiever is inspired by a mentor.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

  4. “Your mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely.” — Robert Kiyosaki

  5. “A great mentor helps you to achieve what seems impossible.” — Mariela Dabbah
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    quotes about mentorship

  6. “Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.” — Richie Norton

  7. “A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.” — John Wooden
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    quotes on mentoring

  8. “A truly great mentor is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.” — Unknown

  9. “Find a great mentor who believes in you; your life will change forever!” — Bill Walsh

  10. “The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.” — Plutarch

  11. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” — Oprah Winfrey
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    mentor quotes oprah

  12. “Mentorship is the key to unlocking each of our entrepreneurial spirits.” — Richard Branson

  13. “With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest self.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

  14. “Being under your supervision has been an amazing experience. Thank you for your mentorship!” — Unknown

  15. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

  16. “The question is not only who can be your mentor but also who can you mentor?” — Mariela Dabbah

  17. “It’s been true in my life that when I’ve needed a mentor, the right person shows up.” — Ken Blanchard

  18. “No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself.” — Conrado I. Generoso

  19. “Mentors don’t necessarily have the answers, but they can help you find your own answers.” — Amelia Rope

  20. “A role model should be like the light at the end of a tunnel, guiding you when you are lost.” — Cristina Imre

  21. “A mentor empowers the person to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained.” — Shawn Hitchcock

  22. “Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It’s the only way we grow.” — George Lucas

  23. “True mentors have this unique ability to pick up vibes that everyone else misses from within you.” — Ahmad R Kazi

  24. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” — Khalil Gibran

Motivational Mentoring Quotes

  1. “Mentor someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.” — Unknown

  2. “Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.” — Pat Conroy

  3. “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” — Phil Collins

  4. “Every kid needs a mentor; every human needs a mentor.” — Donovan Bailey

  5. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

  6. “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” — Tom Brokaw

  7. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton

  8. “Mentoring is: Sharing life’s experiences and God’s faithfulness.” — Janet Thompson

  9. “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” — Jacques Barzun

  10. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

  11. “Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” — John Crosby

  12. “Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    mentor quotes inspirational

  13. “I’ve trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.” — Ram Shriram

  14. “If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.” — J Loren Norris

  15. “You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.” — Galileo Galilei

  16. “A mentor is a compass that activates curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom. Thank you for your guidance.” — Unknown


  17. “Working with you gives me the fulfillment that I never knew was possible as an employee. Thanks, Boss.” — Unknown


  18. “I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.” — Denzel Washington

  19. “Women helping each other- coaching, mentoring, providing tips is a great way for us to be our own force.” —Indra Nooyi

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

  21. “The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.” — Gary Patton

  22. “The recommendation when I’m mentoring folks, I always tell them – and we talked about this last year—take a risk.” — Ginni Rometty

  23. “Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” —  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  24. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” — Whoopi Goldberg

  25. “Be patient with yourself; trust in the Universe; find mentors; know that you can achieve whatever you set out to do.” — Diane L. Dunton

  26. “I’ll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.” — Bernard Cornwell

  27. “My favorite mentor unleashed my passions, channeled my energy, guided my growth, and encouraged my success.” — Anna Letitia Cook

  28. “Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership and mentorship becomes ineffective, if not impossible.” — George Foreman


  29. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” — Steve Jobs

  30. “The heart of mentoring getting the most out of life isn’t about how much you keep for yourself, but how much you pour into others.” — David Stoddard

These great quotes will inspire you to be a mentor or find one for yourself. Don’t be clueless for long, just find your mentor and move towards success.

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