Teacher Motivational Quotes

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far.

The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Let us pick up our books and our pens.

They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust.

People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes;

and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

The names Lillian Smith, Eric Dazey, Jon Bullock, and Clari Higginson may mean nothing to most people but the mean the world to me. Of all my years in school, these are the teachers who challenged me to get better everyday and whole-heartedly believed in my dreams. The support they gave me was priceless and life changing.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library.

A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

You have the power to help people become winners.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day.

It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

I started in high school with a teacher there.

I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc.