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Mentor Quotes

Words of thanks for those who guide us.

These lines cover mentorship from several angles, including a cricketer offering to coach younger players and a psychologist's complicated relationship with his own teacher. Others recall how an early mentoring role shaped a lifelong path. Read more under Great.

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

Quotes by Katie Lowes

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

I want young girls that I mentor and young girls all around the world who want to be a model to be able to see that there's a great deal of sacrifice.

Quotes by Jessica White

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

Quotes by Jeff Perry

Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.

Quotes by Jared Kushner

Working with Subhash Ghai is always a different experience. Subhashji is my mentor. I'm always glad to work with him.

Quotes by Jackie Shroff

I really want to be a mentor to other Islander kids, because I understand the pressure they are under from their parents.

Quotes by Israel Folau

T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Quotes by Iggy Azalea

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...

Quotes by Graham Swift

I don't really have a mentor.

Quotes by Giles Deacon

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

Quotes by Gia Coppola

Laurence Fishburne is my mentor.

Quotes by George Eads

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Quotes by Gail Kelly

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

Quotes by Fetty Wap

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

Quotes by Eli Wallach

Knowing how to tactfully criticize someone's work is a mentor's job.

Quotes by Eileen Pollack

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Quotes by Donovan Bailey

I like to be try to be a mentor to some of the younger quarterbacks in the NFL.

Quotes by Donovan McNabb

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

Quotes by Donal Logue

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

Quotes by Don Novello

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Mentor quotes collection about?
It highlights the guidance that shapes careers, including athletes offering to coach younger players and reflections on complicated teacher-student bonds. The tone ranges from grateful to candidly mixed.
Why do people search for mentor quotes?
They're often looking for words to thank someone who shaped their path, or language to describe their own mentoring role to others. It's a theme tied closely to gratitude and growth.
What non-generic angle does this page offer?
One entry comes from a psychologist's famously strained relationship with the mentor who trained him, showing that mentorship isn't always simple admiration. Another describes mentoring as an unexpected route into a lifelong calling.
Are these quotes only about formal mentorship programs?
No, they cover both informal guidance, like naming a personal role model, and structured mentoring roles taken on by choice. See Great for related themes of admiration.
What other pages relate to this topic?
Readers often continue to He or Like, which share this page's reflective tone about people who influence us.

For related reflections on people who shape us, check out He or Like, which touch on similar themes of admiration and influence.