Quotes about Mentors

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.

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

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

Who you spend time with is who you become.

You become what you hang around most.

As Elijah's mantle fell on Elisha and as other prophetic disciples sought to emulate their mentors, so the ascending Jesus empowered his church with the Spirit to carry on his mission to the ends of the earth (1:9—11).

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

In the larger denominational landscape, generally speaking, women's well-being wasn't the priority. Our husband's was. We catered to them. This was part of submission. This notion did not only come from the men. I was taught in so many words by women mentors that if I treated my husband as if he were already everything I wanted him to be, he would become that. Also, if we women would do our part, God would see to it that the men would be won over and do their part.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

Nearly every human being is looking for a guide (or guides) to help them win the day.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.