Inspirational Quotations for Teachers

Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life. Attributed to Aristotle

To teach is to learn. Chinese proverb

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. Solomon Ibn Gabriol

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. Patricia Neal

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams

The aim of education should be teaching us how to think, rather than what to think. James Beatti It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. Henri-Frdric Amiel

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn Any hard lesson that may do thee good. William Shakespeare

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Cicero

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles....He is a senior student anxious to help his juniors. William Osler

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard

Who dares teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana

Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others. Confucius

My joy in learning is partly that it enable me to teach. Seneca

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. A Bartlett Giamatt

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Twenty One Good Quotations About Life

There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

People with goals succeed because they know where theyre going. Earl Nightingale

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Buddhist Saying

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill

The measure of a mans real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. T.B. Macaulay

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Alan Poe

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltaire

Deprive yourself on nothing necessary for your comfort, but live in an honorable simplicity and frugality. John McDonough

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. John C. Maxwell

Study in the course of your life to do the greatest amount of good. John McDonough

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come and sit next to me. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Henry David Thoreau

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. Antoine de Saint-Exupry

Failure is instructive. People who really think learn quite as much from their failures as from their successes. . John Dewey

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. Francis Bacon

You must look into people as well as at them. Lord Chesterfield

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. J. Petit Senn

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so ; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design. Mme. De Girardin

We are no longer happy, so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor

Our minds are as different as our faces: we all want to travel to one destination; --happiness; but we're not all going by the same road. Charles Caleb Colton

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. Dr. John Aiken

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. William Ellery Channing

Never give way to melancholy. Nothing encroaches more. I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now ? Are you likely to remain so till tomorrow or next month, or next year ? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery which may never come at all, or you may never live to see ? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and many of them shadows of your own making. Sydney Smith

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs

Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess. He who wants little always has enough. Zimmermann

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb. Henry Wood

To be secure, be humble. To be happy, be content. James Hurdis

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. Benjamin Frankin

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are the perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. Immanuel Kant

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected. (Grata superveniet qute non sperabitur hora.) Horace

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Inspiring Thoughts on Truth and Honesty

Always speak the truth. George Washington

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. Charles William Eliot

He buries gold who hides the truth. Pythagoras

The expression of truth is simplicity. Seneca

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. Ammian

When money speaks, truth keeps silent. Russian Proverb

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. Proverb

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. John Milton

Follow your honest convictions, and be strong. William M. Thackery

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. Chaucer

Honesty first; then courage; then brainsand all are indispensable. Theodore Roosevelt

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. Tacitus

Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself. Christian Nestell Bovee

The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. William Cowper

To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. William Shakepeare

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. Sir Richard Steele

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and unquestionable truth. Joseph Joubert

Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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