To teachers everywhere. You have heard it a thousand times:"It takes a village to raise a child." Children need years of positive influence from several adults to attain their full potential. Teachers are a substantial portion of that positive influence. Teachers leave a lifelong impact on children, and oftentimes even spend more time with kids then their parents. Teachers help children grow into unique and valued members of society.
You are their guiding North star, the instructor that's shaping this planet's future. But when you're up to your neck in papers to grade, and the espresso just ai not helping like it used to, it can be tough to see the forest for the trees. Here are a few powerful motivational quotes to help you see the beauty of your work. Maintain your focus on the larger picture and remember why you chose this in the first place. Feel free to share the images if you like.
10 of Our Favorite Inspirational quotes for teachers with Images
"Teachers who are crazy enough to think they can change the world do." - Author unknown
The future is in your hands now. The world becomes better because of your impact.
"Every child is just one caring adult from being a success story."
Imagine what kind of planet we'd have if each child had someone to help them reach their untapped potential.
"Our job is to educate the students we have. Not those we would like to have. Those we have.
Ok so not all humans are created equal, but all of them have potential to do amazing things.
The miracle is this: they frequently do." - Haim Ginott
You're a superhero without a cape.
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle
It looks like almost a no brainer, but we should always apply kindness as much as grammar.
"One child, one instructor, one book, 1 pen can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai
That teacher is you.
"You may not find the fruit of today's work but you've seeded a lifetime of knowledge." - Author unknown
Never take for granted the small things you teach, they could impact a child for many years to come. My fourth grade teacher told me to question what I do, 20 years later I still live by this and it has made me a wiser person
"There is no greater benefit than working from your heart, and making a difference in the world." - Carlos Santana
Teachers who teach from the heart remain with people forever. Thank you!
"Teaching is the only profession that makes all other professions." - Author Unknown
Nobody would be here reading this right now with no remarkable teacher like you. From learning to read to performing heart surgery, all is possible thanks to a teacher!
"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well." --Aristotle
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More Powerful Teacher Estimates We Love
"I'm indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." - Alexander the Great
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Adams
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - BB King
"We teachers are rather good at magic, you know." - J.K. Rowling
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers." - Author unknown
"What is done to children, they'll do to society." - Karl Menninger
- Edward Everett
"There is but one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that's by making the other person want to do it." - Dale Carnegie
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." - Victor Hugo
"A good teacher is a physician who heals ignorance and an artist who inspires creativity" - Author unknown
"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the country, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation."
"If someone is going down the wrong road, he does not need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around." - Jim Rohn
"The scientific mind doesn't so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss
"Poor is the pupil who doesn't surpass his master." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Education isn't the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butlet Yeats
"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
"Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would not have anything to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers." - Author unknown
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open." - Frank Zappa
"If you can not explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"I will venture to maintain that in which the teacher is not pleasing to the student, there is no education." - Xenophon
"Students do not care how much you know until they know how much your care" - Anonymous
"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." - Confucius
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn" - Benjamin Franklin
"The more you read, the more things you may know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go" - Dr.Seuss
"It takes a big heart to help shape small minds." - Unknown
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Plato
"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
