Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin
Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact
upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.
Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
Helen Peters
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.”
Dan Rather
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
Karl Menninger
Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
William Shakespeare
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
Ever Garrison
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July, and August.
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
G.B. Stern
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William A. Ward
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard
I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Tracy Chapman
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward