Mentor Quotes

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

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

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

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.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.