Alessia Cara Quotes

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

I like to be supportive and a role model.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn't really prepared to be one, but it's always something that I've taken very seriously.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

It's been true in my life that when I've needed a mentor, the right person shows up.

I feel like I've been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

There's nothing better than having a positive impact on kids.

Being a role model is a little bit of pressure on me, but I know that people will support me either way which is a good feeling.

I'm queen of mentorship.

A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

Coach Dyer was a great mentor for me and a great teacher.

I've always said, other than my dad, coaches had the greatest impact on me.

Everyone knows someone struggling in some kind of way. You are a role model to so many people, even if you don't realize it. Take someone under your wing. Show them the right way to do things.

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.

Sheryl Sandberg was a mentor and a champion for me, and she saw something in me that I didn't see in myself.

I share my story to help other people. I know people need someone to be a role model and help them along the way.