Inspirational Teacher Quotes

The best teachers are the best storytellers. ~ Frank Smith

Men learn while they teach. ~ Seneca The Younger

Respect is a sign of strength, not of weakness. ~ Claudia Diaz

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. ~ Stephen King

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. ~ Darwin D. Martin

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. ~ Wendell Phillips

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. ~ Randy Pausch

It was quite tough, not many opportunities.
I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future." ~ John Ilhan

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher. ~ Stephen Mangan

Who was your teacher? He hadn't studied with that teacher; he'd read the books. I didn't know the answer I was looking for when I asked the question, but I do now.
A book may teach, but is not a teacher.
A teacher may find fame, but a teacher is not a celebrity.
A teacher comes from a line of teachers and completes a length of training that he or she freely admits is never complete.
A teacher is rarely found and yet astonishes you with his or her complete availability.
A teacher doesn't ask much of you
not your life, not your loyalty, and not a high fee for a once-in-a-life-time opportunity.
A teacher waits. ~ Karen Maezen Miller

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. ~ Jeff Bridges

If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature. ~ Toru Takemitsu

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment. ~ Frederick Lenz

God is the greatest Teacher. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. ~ Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

You teach best what you most need to learn. - RICHARD BACH, ILLUSIONS: THE ADVENTURES OF A RELUCTANT MESSIAH ~ Lisa B. Marshall

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. ~ Seymour Papert

My words itch at your ears till you understand them ~ Walt Whitman

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. ~ Paulo Coelho

The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life. ~ Larry Ellison

There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside. ~ Frederick Lenz

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university. ~ Jessica Raine

Frank Halford was a master at the school and remembers Adams as "very tall even then, and popular. He wrote an end-of-term play when Doctor Who had just started on television. He called it 'Doctor Which.' " Many years later, Adams did write scripts for Doctor Who. He describes Halford as an inspirational teacher who is still a support. "He once gave me ten out of ten for a story, which was the only time he did throughout his long school career. And even now, when I have a dark night of the soul as a writer and think that I can't do this anymore, the thing that I reach for is not the fact that I have had best-sellers or huge advances. It is the fact that Frank Halford once gave me ten out of ten, and at some fundamental level I must be able to do it. ~ Douglas Adams

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. ~ Fawn M. Brodie

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. ~ Sidney Hook

Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life. ~ Dan Howell

Learning is never done without errors and defeat. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Once you know yourself as the light, you will find that inner peace dominates every situation. It's not that you will never feel fear, anxiety, or anger, but you will no longer get lost in your pain. ~ Panache Desai

Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store. ~ Giorgio Armani

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~ Quentin Crisp

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive. ~ John Eldredge

The Lord can accomplish much more through prayer than any teacher can through teaching, and many times He will also bring great insight within that context. ~ Dutch Sheets

Follow the arrow, wherever it points. ~ Kacey Musgraves

Attention is the beginning of devotion. ~ Mary Oliver

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. ~ David F. Jakielo

Keep working on love. ~ Richard Bach

Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power. ~ Jay Allison

90% of relationship issues are caused by misunderstandings, 9.9% by conflicts of interest. Luckily, ladies and gentlemen can always come to an agreement. ~ Stefan Emunds

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

As always, the solutions is the simplest way: we have to start and lead by example. ~ Da Anunciação Marco

When you allow your entire life to be based around your source of income, you are allowing your entire life to crumble at the loss of that source. ~ Shanna Star

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. ~ David E. Kelley

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

When you hope for the best for sure something better will happen. ~ Debasish Mridha

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. ~ Nikola Tesla

Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing. ~ Leonard Peltier

The Secret of Life?
The energy you give out to others attracts more of the same energy back to you ~ Steven Aitchison

When there is nonjudgmental love then there is no giving up. ~ Debasish Mridha

We are all the authors of our own fates; but we have gotten so lost in the technicalities of forming letters and stringing words together that we've forgotten what it really means to write. ~ Cristen Rodgers

The definition of disappointment in life is expectations minus reality equals disappointment. The only two solutions you have to get over disappointment is to either alter your reality or alter your expectations. ~ Randy Carlson

Ensure that people who matter to you always feel cared for and accepted. ~ Amey Hegde

When you are like the tree, there is oneness with the Earth, Sun and Moon, but still steadfast in your purpose. ~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

True intelligence is pure love which does not exclude or waste anything.
Not even a grain of sand is excluded or wasted. There are no exceptions in what is set free and in what is in service to this setting free.
Life, the formless, form and fragrance, knows exactly what it is doing.
Life is pure, unfiltered Intelligence flowing as whatever shape is now appearing.
It is alive and it is all calling us Home.
Do you hear the grain of sand calling your name?
It says, "Love."
Do you sense the truth of it?
If not, lean in and 'listen' again -
this time with the whole of your being. ~ Dhyana Stanley

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office. ~ Charlotte Bronte

Life is great. It is a tremendous gift I look forward to unwrapping everyday. ~ Rashida Costa

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher. ~ Rudolf Steiner

For what it's worth, my dear, life is very long, and memories are very short. ~ Sara Wolf

Nathan said nothing for a moment. Then, "There's nothing in my fur, is there?"
Simon gave the other Wolf a careful look. "No boogers."
"Good. I hate washing boogers out of fur."
"Who doesn't? What comes out of human noses is disgusting ... ~ Anne Bishop

Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink. ~ Kabir

plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat... ~ Jamaica Kincaid

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. ~ Michael Jackson

In business, experience is the big teacher. ~ Matthew Stewart

What will be, will be. And then I'll fix it. ~ J.S. Burke

This may sound like a bunch of psychobabble, but the truth is that we are all filled with contradictions; personality is fluid not black and white. And, well…we are all both strong
and weak. That's what it means to be human. We all have flaws, weaknesses. The real strength is when we can admit these to ourselves and become able to show them to others. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Do the new, be the change. ~ Neeraj Vohara

You should never make people who love you feel bad! ~ Suyasha Subedi

The student and the teacher had contrasting ideas about the sentence, which was: There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ John Irving

Others may take away your means of support, they may take away your opportunity to grow and may even cause you to doubt your self-worth. But only you can give away your dignity, only you can give away your voice to proclaim who you really are, and only you can give away those pieces of your soul that make you human and determine your character. ~ Tonny K. Brown

At high school I was never comfortable for a minute. I did not know about Lonnie. Before an exam, she got icy hands and palpitations, but I was close to despair at all times. When I was asked a question in class, any simple little question at all, my voice was apt to come out squeaky, or else hoarse and trembling. When I had to go to the blackboard I was sure - even at a time of the month when this could not be true - that I had blood on my skirt. My hands became slippery with sweat when they were required to work the blackboard compass. I could not hit the ball in volleyball; being called upon to perform an action in front of others made all my reflexes come undone. I hated Business Practice because you had to rule pages for an account book, using a straight pen, and when the teacher looked over my shoulder all the delicate lines wobbled and ran together. I hated Science; we perched on stools under harsh lights behind tables of unfamiliar, fragile equipment, and were taught by the principal of the school, a man with a cold, self-relishing voice - he read the Scriptures every morning - and a great talent for inflicting humiliation. I hated English because the boys played bingo at the back of the room while the teacher, a stout, gentle girl, slightly cross-eyed, read Wordsworth at the front. She threatened them, she begged them, her face red and her voice as unreliable as mine. They offered burlesqued apologies and when she started to read again they took up rapt postures, mad ~ Alice Munro

An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills. Some writers have felt new appreciation for their lives after surviving a serious illness or disability. A fortunate outcome does not invalidate the unfortunate aspect. ~ Nan Merrick Phifer