Inspirational Quotes for Teacher

"A caring teacher hands children their passport to the future." Jenlane Gree
"Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined." Alexander Pope
"Few have more opportunities to be heroes than do teachers." Greg Henry Quinn
"To know how to suggest is the art of teaching." Henri-Frederic Amiel
"I know teachers who have the intensity and power to hold their ground against anything that comes their way...Those teachers are my heroes. They are able to do important things regardless of the kind of day they are having or the strong winds blowing against them." John Morris
"If I had one piece of advice for first-year teachers, I'd tell them to give themselves credit for what they do right and to remember that isnpiring in students an excitement about learning is no small thing." Julie Olin Schulz

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
Quintilian

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
Aristotle

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson They say you're born to teach, and it must have been like that for me because I know education is the field where I belong. It's not just the love of children, but it's hope for the future.
Sandra Fernandez

The best way to teach people is by telling a story.
Kenneth Blanchard

For many students, their teachers may be the only adult with whom they have a meaningful conversation all day.
V. Gill

Teachers are the architectural designers of nations. People must see that education is not an expense, but an investment.
Donna Oliver, 1987 United States Teacher of the Year

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
William Arthur Ward

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney

I do not teach children, I give them joy.
Isadora Duncan

Every September is like Christmas, and every student, a surprise gift to open.
Mary Vissilikou Bicouvaris, 1989 United States Teacher of the Year

My greatest satisfaction comes when my students find the success they never thought they could have.
Addie Rhodes Lee

When you work for a corporation, you get financial rewards, but you never see the results of all your hard work. With teaching, you see the results every day and the rewards are immedaite.
Margaret Coppe

A student's success in school starts in the heads and hearts of his or her parents and teachers. The way we see them, the way the see themselves, is what they will become.
Linda Holt, 1995 Hawaii Teacher of the Year

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.
Stephen Neil

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
John Dewey

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Carolus Linnaeus

He who learns, teaches.
African Proverb

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards

You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo

Each and every day...
Each and every child,
I have the power, the passion, the skill, and the knowledge
to make a difference.
Each and every day...
Each and every child.
Sandra McBrayer, 1994 United States Teacher of the Year

But the great Master said, "I see
No best in kind, but in degree;
I gave a various gift to each,
To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow