Mentoring Quotes
Mentoring Quote of the day
Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
Conflict is just another chance for agreement.
When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy.
Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.
Failure is a sign post of life, guiding us to the right paths.
The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.
Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.
To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.
I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn’t work harder at a person’s recovery than she is willing to work.
He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.
Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table".
I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.
The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls.
Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.
You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.
I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.
He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.
If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
A woman with a strong sense of personal power, is self confident enough to accurately identify her strengths as well as her blind spots, which she is continually working to improve.
Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.
Life is hope.Hope is faith.Faith is believe.Believe is possibilities.Possibility is miraculous.Miraculous is divine.Divine is supernatural.Supernatural is spiritual.
The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.
The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.
Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.
