Mentoring Quotes

“As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.”
― Germany Kent

“To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.”
― Cordelia Jensen, Skyscraping

“Life is hope.
Hope is faith.
Faith is believe.
Believe is possibilities.
Possibility is miraculous.
Miraculous is divine.
Divine is supernatural.
Supernatural is spiritual.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“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.”
― Stacey Radin, Brave Girls: Raising Young Women with Passion and Purpose to Become Powerful Leaders

“Real mentoring is less of neither the candid smile nor the amicable friendship that exists between the mentor and the mentee and much more of the impacts. The indelible great footprints the mentor live on the mind of the mentee in a life changing way. How the mentor changes the mentee from ordinariness to extra-ordinariness; the seed of purposefulness that is planted and nurtured for great fruits; the payer from afar from the mentor to the mentee; and the great inspirations the mentee takes from the mentor to dare unrelentingly to face the storms regardless of how arduous the errand may be with or without the presence of the mentor.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It is a solemn duty to change lives positively.It is a noble honor to inspire and be there for others.It is an irresistible necessity to have empathy; to understand the situations and the reasons for the actions of others. Real mentoring is less of neither the candid smile nor the amicable friendship that exists between the mentor and the mentee and much more of the impacts. The indelible great footprints the mentor lives on the mind of the mentee in a life changing way. How the mentor changes the mentee from ordinariness to extra-ordinariness; the seed of purposefulness that is planted and nurtured for great fruits; the prayer from afar from the mentor to the mentee; and the great inspirations the mentee takes from the mentor to dare unrelentingly to face the storms regardless of how arduous the errand may be with or without the presence of the mentor”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

“Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

“The different shades of colours present cultural diversity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.”
― Timothy Keller, King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

“Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now.”
― Douglas Copeland

“Great mentorship is priceless.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“He who want to be served must first know how to serve.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with.”
― Joseph Bottum

“What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion”
― Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

“I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn’t work harder at a person’s recovery than she is willing to work.”
― Pam Farrel, Woman of Influence: Ten Traits of Those Who Want to Make a Difference

“Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.”
― Will Durant

“The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.”
― Caitlin Keiper

“He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“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.”
― David Kahn

“I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.”
― David Skinner

“We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“There is trust, love, and understanding in freedom”
― Sunday Adelaja

“He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.”
― David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

“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”
― Henrik Bering

“Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.”
― John Kasich, Every Other Monday: Twenty Years of Life, Lunch, Faith, and Friendship