Famous Quotes & Sayings

Over 20 women have called wanting to be a mentor to a young lady.

It is a sad time in our little town. He was our doctor, our mentor and our friend.

Christopher Parker

I get on well with everyone, but I like Jessie Wallace and Natalie Cassidy. Natalie was my mentor when I joined, so we're really close.

Brian Jones

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

Deepak Chopra

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Alessandra Ambrosio

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

We have mentors in a whole range of ages.

Paul Simon

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

Claudia Black

I have phenomenal mentors who guide me to maximize my effectiveness.

Robert Kiyosaki

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely

Colin Powell

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Jane Fonda

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Bo Sanchez

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

Bernard Cornwell

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

Dmitry Medvedev

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

Doyle Brunson

So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.

Don Novello

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

Michael Bolton

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

Michael Symon

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

John Wooden

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

John Wooden

Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.

Sheryl Sandberg

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

Sheryl Sandberg

Excel and you will get a mentor.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Our true mentor in life is science.

Tony Dungy

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.

Steven Van Zandt

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

Vivek Wadhwa

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

Samuel Beckett

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

Viggo Mortensen

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

Jeffrey Tambor

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

Hillary Clinton

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