Mentor quotes
221 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research."
"A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll."
"I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts."
"You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself."
"The dementors send their love, Potter!"
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"Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him. "Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually. "Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor." Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. "Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you."
"You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!"
"Our true mentor in life is science."
"For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . ."
"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
"I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it."
"So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss."
"A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth."
"You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper."
"Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is."
"Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely"
"Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?"
"What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have."
"Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend."
"I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor."
"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.'"
"True understanding is the spur of genius"
"A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient."
"I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became."
"I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor."
