A collection of 72 encouraging and inspirational quotes for kids from teachers. You will find plenty of heart felt quotes as well as quotes for teachers and their students to live by.
Whether you are a teacher or are just looking to make a teachers day, you are sure to find a powerful quote to do just that. Looking to appreciate a teacher? Use these quotes in a your teacher thank you note.
Motivational quotes for students
1. The road to success is always under construction – Author Unknown
2. Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. – Author Unknown
3. Learning is finding out what you already know. – Richard Bach
4. If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. – Bruce Barton
5. The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day. – O. A. Battista
6. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. – Yogi Berra
7. Shoot for the stars. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. – Les Brown
8. Honor your commitments with integrity. – Les Brown
9. Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality. – Les Brown
10. If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. – Les Brown
11. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. – Alec Bourne
12. A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others. – Buddha
13. The essence of education is to help you discover your uniqueness, Teach you how to develop it, and show you how to give it away. – Leo Buscaglia
14. You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. – Barbara Bush
15. The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves. – Joseph Campbell
16. Blessed are the hearts that can bend; They shall never be broken. – Albert Camus
17. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers
18. Education is the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G. K. Chesterton
19. Tell me and I’ll forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I’ll understand.- Chinese Proverb
20. Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – John Cotton Dana
21. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. – Deepak K. Chopra
22. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – E.E. Cummings
23. To think is to differ. – Clarence Darrow
24. Your work should be in praise of what you love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. Only the educated are free. – Epictetus
26. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes
27. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail Godwin
28. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye
29. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. – Latin Proverb
30. If you would thoroughly know anything, Teach it to others. – Tryon Edwards
31. It is the supreme art of the teacher To awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. – Albert Einstein
32. If a child can’t learn the way we teach, Maybe we should teach the way they learn. – Ignacio Estrada
33. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes
34. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. – Henry Ford
35. I am not a teacher, but an awakener. – Robert Frost
36. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. – Robert Frost
37. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
38. Too often we give young people cut flowers instead of teaching them to grow their own plants. – John Gardner
39. The teacher is the chief learner in the classroom. – Donald Graves
40. The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better, is because it helps me to forgive their children. – Louis Johannot
41. To teach is to learn twice. – Joseph Joubert
42. Knowledge rests not just upon truth, but upon error also. – Carl Jung
43. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. – B.B. King
44. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann
45. Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating. – C.B. Neblette
46. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. – Wendell Phillips
47. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. – Pablo Picasso
48. The beginning is the most important part of the work. – Plato
49. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. – Plutarch
50. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope
51. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
52. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
53. More important than the curriculum Is the question of the methods of teaching And the spirit in which the teaching is given. – Bertrand Russell
54. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana
55. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. – Angela Schwindt
56. The only way you can change someone, Is to first change yourself. – Barbara Shelby
57. There is one truth to the right, and one truth to the left, The truest truth lies somewhere in the middle. – Barbara Shelby
58. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates
59. Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. – Bob Talbert
60. The road to success is always under construction – Lily Tomlin
61. When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. – Mark Twain
62. The best way to know life is to love many things. – Vincent Van Gogh
63. If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job. – Donald D. Quinn
64. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William Arthur Ward
65. I put the relation of a fine teacher to a student just below the relation of a mother to a son – Thomas Wolfe
66. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. – Philip Wylie
67. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – W. B. Yeats
68. Education is bitter but the fruit is sweet. – Agustin Marissa
69. Imagination – is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness – Melowpark College
70. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Moliere
71. We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude. – Anonymous
72. If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I’ll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. – Anonymous
There you have it, 72 encouraging and inspirational quotes for kids from teachers. We hope you have found the heartfelt quote that you were looking for.
Reading or sharing inspiring quotes is a great way to stay motivated and maintain a positive attitude. Share these quotes or write them on a sticky note and place them on your mirror.
