Mentors
Successful people never reach their goals alone! Who is your mentor, who helps you see clearly (or clearer), who helps you recover from a major mess up? Who lifts you up when you are down. We all need mentors in every aspect of our lives. These quotes are from my friend Ben Richter's weekly email. Hope you enjoy them.
“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.”
~Oprah Winfrey
“One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.”
~John C. Maxwell
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”
~Steven Spielberg
“You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.”
~Diana Ross
“I have observed while mentoring that most people are the greatest saboteurs of their most majestic dreams; there are two voices you can emulate when you are looking at yourself in the mirror each morning. One, tells yourself why you can’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t, and won’t be able to it; the other voice we each possess can be unleashed that gives us permission to go boldly beyond even our most audacious goals.”
~Benjamin Richter
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”
~Benjamin Disraeli
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
~King James Bible (Proverbs 28:17)
“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
~Whoopi Goldberg
“A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, ‘Look, it’s not that tough. It’s not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.’”
~Joe Jonas
“My mentor said, ‘Let’s go do it,’ not ‘You go do it.’ How powerful when someone says, ‘Let’s!’”
~Jim Rohn
“Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living—if you do it well I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor.”
~Denzel Washington
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
~Isaac Newton