Quotes about Mentorship

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.

So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray.