1. The gravest act of treason is to do the right deed for the wrong reason, -T.S.

Elliot
2. Everything must begin with meaningful, passionate, compelling. Why? –Simon Sinek
3. When you feel like quitting, remember the reason why you started teaching
4. When the you must know the reason why you do what you do
5. Happiness comes from fidelity to a worthwhile purpose. –Helen Keller
6. Finding your passion, it will lead straight to your purpose –T.D Jakes
7. The two most important days in your life: the day you are born and the day you discover why
–Mark Twain
8. The most important thing that a man (woman) can bring to combat is the reason why –R.Strong
9. He/she who has a why can bear with almost any how –Viktor Frankl
10. The happiest people are committed to making other people happy - Adam Leipzig
11. Five questions to clarify your purpose:
(i) who am I
(ii) what do I do
(iii) whom do I do it for
(iv) what do they need
(v) what becomes of them because of what I do
12. The happiest people are outward looking.
13. Purpose is the place where you’re deepest gladness melts the world needs –Frederick Buechner
14. A life without a cause, is a life without an effect –Paulo Coello
15. The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away –Pablo Picasso
16. Teaching is a giving profession
17. Find a bigger picture, (and) be part of greater cause.
18. A teacher work is a compass that activates magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom.
19. Teaching is an affair of the heart
20. Teaching is a very passionate profession
21. Passion means doing a little bit more.
22. Nothing great was ever accomplished without passion
23. Teaching is a very emotional practice: it creates, it colors, it changes our lives. –Andy Hargreaves
24. Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
25. Students do not care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
26. Teaching is a business of caring
27. You can pay people to teach but you can never pay them to care
28. When you study great teachers.. you will learn from their caring and hardwork than from their style
-William Glasser
29. Teaching is not just style, it is a lifestyle
30. The most important characteristic of successful teacher is care. –Lolita Nava
31. Children who are loved at home, go to school to learn, but those who are not, go to school to be
loved. –Nicholas Ferroni
32. The best teachers are not who teach from the book, but those who teach from the heart.
33. The real mission of a teacher is to be kind –Mother Teresa
34. Be kind to anything
35. Love first than teach.
36. Our prime purpose in life is to help others, if you cannot help them, atleast do not hurt them. –Dalai
Lama
37. Teachers who love teaching teach children to love learning. –Robert
38. It is not enough to teach students to know, we must teach them to love. –Pope Francis
39. Students may forget their class, but they always remember how good you make them feel.
–Neni Sta. Romana Cruz
40. What keep students inside the classroom are relationships –Nela O’connor
41. Teachers must be expert relationship builders
42. Learning is a very emotional experience
43. Students learned best when they like their teacher and when they think their teachers like them.
–Gordon Neufeld
44. You know nobody likes to learn from someone they do not like. –Rita Peterson
45. Teachers teach their lives
46. Teachers must be first of all be good human being.
47. Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.
–Albert Einstein
48. There is no way to measure the love that you put into your work, what matters most is not what you
do but the humanity that goes into it.
49. Teachers must not just be effective or efficient, they must be normally good.
50. Teach by example or else do not teach at all.
51. What is essential is invisible to the eyesight is with the heart that one can see rightly.
52. Be the change that you want to see the world. –
53. Successful are characterized by teachers who enjoyed working with each other
54. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stop. –Lao Tzu
55. A Teacher’s Journey:
In the beginning –
1. What personal beliefs, values, realities and circumstances inspired me to become a teacher?
2. What positive images and characteristic of BukSU influenced me to teach in BukSU?
3. What makes teaching worthwhile work?
4. What do I want to become?