Teacher Quotes - DoolBug

Teacher Quotes

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Goethe

If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse

Unknown

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Don't follow your dreams, chase them.

Richard Dumb

The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Maria Montessori

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn

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

Paulo Coelho

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Steven Covey

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.

Laura Frith

Dreams don't work unless you do.

John C. Maxwell

The secret of education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Morgan

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carlson

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Scott Hamilton

The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.

Gordon Korman

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

Henry Ford

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Phil Collins

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

Albert Einstein

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Confucius

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Albert Einstein

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

William Glasser

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy

Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Jim Henson

A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.

Forest Witcraft

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.

Linda Conway

Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.

Julia H. Gulliver

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Dalai Lama

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

Brian Tracy

Our only security is in our ability to change.

Sam Keen