I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -- Maya Angelou

Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge.
Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
Marsha Blackburn

Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself.
Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible,
and possible for you, not just for other people.
Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
-- Jack Canfield

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -- Rachel Carson

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
-- John C. Crosby

The six essential leadership attributes:
set high standards; live your standards and mentor those who follow;
create and share a vision; make the hard choices when necessary;
be visible and outfront; and instill hope in those who follow.
-- John Di Frances

Mentoring brings us together – across generation, class, and often race –
in a manner that forces us to acknowledge our interdependence, to appreciate,
in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, that ‘we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied to a single garment of destiny.’
In this way, mentoring enables us to participate in the essential
but unfinished drama of reinventing community,
while reaffirming that there is an important role for each of us in it.
-- Marc Freedman

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them.
-- Earvin "Magic" Johnson

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it. But if we are honest with ourselves, we'll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it. -- Barack Obama

Looking back across my timeline through school, and indeed in the early days of teaching,
I see one good thing about being filled with insecurities.
Knowing that I had everything to gain, I seemed to seek out mentors.
Shirley McPhillips

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. -- Albert Schweitzer

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. -- Oprah Winfrey