Mentor Quotes

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.
Michelle Obama

Husband, Blessed, Wife

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

Daily, Someone, Learn

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

Best, Amazing, Dad

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

Fun, Getting, Older

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
Lee Iacocca

Business, Guy, Nose

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.
Christina Aguilera

Dreams, Help, Artists

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.
Justin Bieber

Manager, Definitely, Usher

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
Anthony Hopkins

Great, Worked, Lawrence

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.
Jessica Simpson

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.
Kim Cattrall

Love, Mother, Young

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

Art, Teacher, Gay

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
Shimon Peres

Personal, Read, Actually

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
Gus Van Sant

Life, Art, Teacher

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

Teacher, Driving, Forces

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.
Sean Paul

Life, Person, Opinion

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.
Geoffrey Rush

Children, Parents, Working

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

Seriously, Role

I'm excited about the new judges on 'American Idol.' Jennifer Lopez was a real mentor to me my season and I admire her so much. And I kind of have a crush on Steven Tyler. It's going to be interesting to see is one person going to stand out among the judges or if everyone will sort of be equal.
Jordin Sparks

Real, Person, Everyone

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.
Melissa Rosenberg

Time, Someone, Person

I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
Naveen Jain

Nature, Children, Humility

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.
Nicole Richie

True, Father, Parents

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.
Michael Symon

Great, Friends, Enough

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

Love, Nothing, Making

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.
Allan Houston

Life, Leadership, Age

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

Parents, Outside

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
Larry King

Television, Mine, Radio

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
Donal Logue

Movies, Feeling, Remember

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.
Tina Weymouth

Knew, Kid, Television

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.
Graham Swift

Family, Time, Writer

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
Steven Van Zandt

Music, Business, Friend

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