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.