Inspiring Mentorship Quotes & Sayings

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. — Jeff Miller

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The story is told that when Joe was a child his cousins emptied his Christmas stocking and replaced the gifts with horse manure. Joe took one look and bolted for the door, eyes glittering with excitement. 'Wait, Joe, where are you going? What did ol' Santa bring you?' According to the story Joe paused at the door for a piece of rope. 'Brought me a bran'-new pony but he got away. I'll catch 'em if I hurry.' And ever since then it seemed that Joe had been accepting more than his share of hardship as good fortune, and more than his share of shit as a sign of Shetland ponies just around the corner, Thoroughbred stallions just up the road. — Ken Kesey

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet. — Candice Swanepoel

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill. — Chief Joseph

Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles. — Abdu'l- Baha

Earlier that year Jobs had been hoping to find a buyer for Pixar that would let him merely recoup the $50 million he had put in. By the end of the day the shares he had retained - 80% of the company - were worth more than twenty times that, an astonishing $1.2 billion. That was about five times what he'd made when Apple went public in 1980. But Jobs told John Markoff of the New York Times that the money did not mean much to him. "There's no yacht in my future," he said. "I've never done this for the money. — Walter Isaacson

Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys
maybe you just have to be angry all the time. — Lauren Oliver

I love you and forgive you for everything you've ever done. I'm sorry for everything that has ever hurt you. — Mark Landau

If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." "You must act as if you had already received. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The habit of saying thank you is the mark of a cultivated mind. — Gordon B. Hinckley

For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice children, wife and house. These are the products of the mode of passion. As long as one is hankering after these things, he has to work very hard. Therefore it is clearly stated here that he becomes associated with the fruits of his activities and thus becomes bound by such activities. In order to please his wife, children and society and to keep up his prestige, one has to work. Therefore the whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence — Barney Kessel

I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That's just what I grew up doing. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr.