To teachers everywhere. You've heard it a thousand times:"It takes a village to raise a kid." Children need years of favorable influence from several adults to attain their full potential. Teachers are a significant part of that positive influence. Teachers leave a lifelong effect on kids , and oftentimes even spend more time with children 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. However, when you're up to your neck in papers to grade, and the espresso just ain't helping as 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 bigger 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."
The future is in your hands today. The world becomes better because of your impact.
"Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story." - Josh Shipp
Imagine what kind of planet we'd have if each child had someone to help them attain their untapped potential.
"Our job is to teach the students we have. Not those we would love to have. Those we have. All of them." - Dr. Kevin Maxwell
Ok so not all people are created equal, but all of them have potential to do amazing things.
"We expect teachers to reach unattainable goals with inadequate resources. The miracle is this: they often do."
You're a superhero with no cape.
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle
It seems like almost a no brainer, but we should always apply kindness as much as punctuation.
"One child, one instructor, one book, 1 pencil can change the world."
"You might not find the fruit of today's work but you have seeded a lifetime of knowledge." - Author unknown
Never take for granted the little things you teach, they could impact a child for years to come. My fourth grade teacher told me to question what I do, 20 years later I still live by this and it's made me a wiser person
"There is no greater benefit than working from your heart, and making a difference in the world."
Teachers who teach from the heart remain with people forever. Thank you!
"Teaching is the only profession that creates all other professions." - Author Unknown
Nobody would be here reading this right now with no amazing 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 themfor 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 nobody can take it away from you." - BB King
"We teachers are somewhat 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
- Victor Hugo
"A good teacher is a doctor who heals an artist that inspires creativity" - Author unknown
"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the country, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"If someone is going down the wrong road, he does not need motivation to speed him up. - Jim Rohn
"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
"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 final 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 have nothing 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 do not know it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the student, there isn't any 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 little minds." - Unknown
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Plato
"I never teach my pupils. I only try 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
