Motivational Quotes for Teachers

·        You cannot teach people anything; you can only help them to find it within themselves. By Galileo

·        The prosperity of a country depends not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, its people of education, enlightenment, and character.

·        Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. By Joyce A. Myers

·        Teach the young people how to think, not what to think. By Sidney Sugarman

·        "Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way."

·        “Other people can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.”

·        “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

·        “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 affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.”

·        “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

·        “The Master said, ‘A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.’ (Analects 2.11)”

·        “If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.”

·        “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

·        "Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another."