Teachers play a significant role in our lives. Almost every one of us probably can think of a teacher who once made an impact to help make us better people. Teachers are seen as people that hold the responsibility to equip students with the necessary knowledge to reach their full potential.
We have here a collection of appreciation quotes for the amazing work that teachers do. Let’s check them out.
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Henry Brooks Adams
“When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”
Dalai Lama
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.”
Brad Henry
“If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
American Proverb
“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It is the supreme art of a teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
Josef Albers
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
Alexander the Great
“Intelligence plus character– that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.”
Ever Garrison
“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”
Sidney Hook
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
Tom Brokaw
“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”
Will Rodgers
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
Carl W. Buechner
“Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.”
Ann Liberman
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.”
Lady Bird Johnson
“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
Fred Rogers
“A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”
Thomas Carruthers
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
“The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”
Andy Rooney
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.”
Carl Jung
“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”
K. Patricia Cross
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X
“Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.”
Chinese Proverb
“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.”
Anatole France
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
B.B. King
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of the individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honor for me.”
APJ Abdul Kalam
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
“What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”
Karl Menninger
“Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best.”
Bob Talbert
“Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.”
Margaret Riel
“Summer vacation is the time when parents realize teachers are grossly underpaid.”
Unknown
“Teaching is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.”
Dr. Ralph Tyler
“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.”
Unknown
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”
Japanese Proverb
“Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.”
Aristotle
“To teach is to learn twice.”
Joseph Joubert
“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?”
Marcus T. Cicero
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
John Dewey
“A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank. But the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child.”
Forest Witcraft
“When we strive to become better teachers than we are, everyone in our classroom becomes better too.”
Robert John Meehan
“Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.”
Ann Lieberman
“Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
John C. Maxwell
“Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.”
Margaret Riel
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.”
Helen Peters
“Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.”
Thomas Mckinnon
“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
Alfred Mercier
“It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.”
Unknown
“He who opens a school door closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
Maria Montessori
“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.’”
Maria Montessori
“Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.”
Unknown
“I can’t believe I just saw my teacher at the grocery store! I thought she lived in her classroom!”
Heidi McDonald
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
Khalil Gibran
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
Plato
“If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”
Will Rodgers
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
Eric Hoffer
“Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.”
Scott Hayden
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.”
Aaron Bacall
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.”
Helen Peters
“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
Solomon Ortiz
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
Malcom X
“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
Joyce Meyer
“True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“To this end, the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.”
John Strachan
“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Jacques Barzun
“In order to be an effective teacher you have to love your students as human beings and you have to love teaching.”
Maribeth Sublette
“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”
Guy Kawasaki
“The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.”
Dorothea Dix
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth’.”
Dan Rather
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.”
Colleen Wilcox
“In teaching, you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.”
Jacques Barzun
“One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.”
Philip Wylie
“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.”
Horace Mann
“The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future.”
F. Sionil Jose
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
Anatole France
“As parent educators, we need to embrace a new notion of learning…we need to engage the heart in order to effectively educate the child. Our vision of a well-educated child is a child who has a heart for learning, a child who has the tools he needs to continue to learn for a lifetime and a child who has the love to want to do it.”
Elizabeth Foss
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.”
John Henrik Clarke
“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
Lily Tomlin
“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.”
Chinese proverb
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”
Gail Godwin
“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.”
The Talmud
“What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.”
Unknown
“Not all superheroes have capes, some have Teaching Degrees.”
Unknown
“What a gift for any teacher to see the students smile and live up to their potential. That’s the reward. That’s humbling to be a witness to something like that.”
Mary Vallelonga
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark Van Doren
“Teachers play such an enormous role in forming, not just teaching them, but forming character in our kids. We really have to thank them for what they do. They are really the core that makes our society work.”
Jeanine Pirro
“Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual.”
Abdul Kalan
“I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.”
James Levine
“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.”
Haim Ginott
“Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.”
Charles Kuralt
“Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that’s because you’re a teacher.”
Aaron Bacall
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
John Dewy
“I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student – and not to a test.”
Erin Gruwell
“A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.”
D. Martin
“Cheers to all of the teachers who give out pencils every single day who know that they’ll never get them back.”
Unknown
“The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.”
Unknown
“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.”
Alexandra K. Trenfor
“Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.”
Rita Pierson
“Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.”
William Prince
“To this end, the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.”
John Strachan
“The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.”
Dorothea Dix
“The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.”
H. L. Mencken
“A truly amazing teacher is hard to find, difficult to part with, and impossible to forget.”
Unknown
“A teacher nourishes the soul of a child for a lifetime.”
Unknown
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”
Joseph Addison
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
John Steinbeck
“Teachers are endless Fragrance, which lasts forever in mind of students as Knowledge.”
Samar Sudha
“The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.”
Dorothea Dix
“Whoever first coined the phrase ‘you’re the wind beneath my wings’ most assuredly was reflecting on the sublime influence of a very special teacher.”
Frank Trujillo
“The great teacher inspires — the others merely instruct.”
Henry B. Trueman
“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”
Althea Gibson
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
B.K. Skinner
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody — a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns — bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
Thurgood Marshall
“No one is useless in this world… who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”
Charles Dickens
“Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.”
Author unknown
“A teacher’s job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.”
D. Martin
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffet
“No one is perfect. That’s why pencils have erasers.”
Wolfgang Riebe
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
Vernon Law
“Teaching is a calling too. And I’ve always thought that teachers in their way are holy — angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.”
Jeannette Walls
“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”
Oprah Winfrey
“…good teachers are priceless. They inspire you; they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it.”
Nicolas Sparks
“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?”
Harriet Martineau
“Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will never see.”
Elijah Cummings
“Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.”
Arne Duncan
“Information may be free; an education is priceless.”
Marie Forleo
“The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.”
Donna Quesada
“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”
Jim Rohn
“A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed.”
Justin Trudeau
“Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.”
Cheryl Richardson
“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”
J.D. Salinger
“Teachers are those who help find strengths, wipe away tears, overpower demons and conquer fears.”
Unknown
“Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times.”
Anonymous
“Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed.”
Barack Obama
“If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher.”
Stephen Hawking
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Leah Hall
“These are tough times for teachers and learners. Pick one or two of these that apply and share with an educator you value!”
Will Hensel
“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”
Sidney Hook
Wrapping Up
The appreciation quotes above throw light on how much teachers influence one’s learning journey, and in return how much teachers need to be appreciated. We hope these teacher appreciation quotes inspire you to always be grateful and appreciate the teachers in your life!
