Mentor Quotes

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

A leader is someone who is always a step ahead of his people … but never more than one step … always close enough in order to understand his people and for his people to understand and feel him.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I look up to my father in every way.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

Sir Alex has a special place in my life. In fact, he was the main man. I was not famous, I was not a star. I arrived at Old Trafford as just another young talent. He was the one who told me to do all the right things. He gave me the opportunity to play in one of the biggest clubs in the world. So he is one of the most important people in the world for me. I worked with Sir Alex for a few years and I know he deserves ­everything that he has achieved in his career. He works so hard, he is clever, he has experience, he is a human guy.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

Marian Wright Edelman is a mentor and hero of mine.

Fortunately for me, my grandfather gave us a life I could never dream of. He was my high school football coach, my best friend, my school teacher - really my dad.

Sir Alex Ferguson has been a massive influence on me.

I went to many games with my dad, Kevin, and looked up to the players. It's surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.

Gigi is an extrovert. He's always smiling and there are no airs and graces about him. He's always a role model for his team-mates, both young and old alike.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

I never really had an idol.

Our true mentor in life is science.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

Undertaker was always a leader in the dressing room, always a man's man. No one ever doubted what he said because his word was good. He was a guy that set the dressing room standard. If you had an issue or personal problem, you could go to Undertaker and he would help you.

People like Paul Scholes were in my way at United - what are you going to do with that? You just look at him as an idol. I have watched him since I was a little kid. I couldn't have had a much better teacher.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

We need more of those characters that lead by example for people coming up next to us.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

Everybody says Jalen Rose is somebody I have to watch, even though he's a little older than me. It started back in high school. Everybody called me 'Little Jalen.'