A mentor also can be a figure of faith—anyone from a religious figure to a church leader to a quiet spirit simply devoted to God.

While mentoring is usually about building someone up, it can occasionally be about taking someone down a notch or two, too—provided the dressing down is done with that person’s best interest at heart and that it stems from love.

Advice, after all, is just experience without the pain of having to learn those lessons yourself.

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”

A personal mentor is an individual whose principles and values have dictated his or her decisions and actions as that person went about his or her life.

It is both something we receive and something we give.

Mentors are all around us; they are everywhere we look. Anywhere there is a sharing of knowledge or a teaching of experience, there is a mentor.

Do any of us really have a choice as to whether a child looks up to us? Do we have any control over another person’s choice to look to model themselves after our own lives?

Humiliation is not the same thing as correction: One attacks the person; the other attacks the problem.