30 Quotes on Leadership, Growth, Failure and Mentorship

1. "A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you." – Bob Proctor
   
   
2. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." – Benjamin Disraeli
   
   
3. "Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction." – John C. Crosby
   
   
4. "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
   
   
5. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." – Ralph Nader 
   
   
6. "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." – Arnold H. Glasow
   
   
7. "I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." – Michael Jordan
   
   
8. "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." – Warren Bennis
   
   
9. "The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people." – John C. Maxwell
   
   
10. "Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge." – Simon Sinek
    
    
11. "The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example." – John Wooden 
    
    
12. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." – Steve Jobs
    
    
13. "Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." – Will Rogers
    
    
14. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." – Henry Ford
    
    
15. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
    
    
16. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
    
    
17. "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey
    
    
18. "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford
    
    
19. "Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe." – Sumner Redstone 
    
    
20. "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
    
    
21. "Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street." – Zig Ziglar
    
    
22. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas Edison
    
    
23. "The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves." – Steven Spielberg
    
    
24. "The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back." – Anonymous
    
    
25. "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." – Eleanor Roosevelt
    
    
26. "Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth." – Paul Clitheroe
    
    
27. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." – Albert Schweitzer
    
    
28. "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford
    
    
29. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." – Colin Powell
    
    
30. "If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." – Zig Ziglar

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