Inspiration Quotes

"The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike."

- H. L. Mencken

"To teach is to learn twice over."

- Joseph Joubert

"The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character."

- Dorothea Dix

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running."

- Simone Weil

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Being able to help someone learn something is a talent."

- Margaret Riel

"They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Carl Buehner

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

- Maya Angelou

"For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth."

- Plutarch

"The fact that you worry about being a good teacher, means that you already are one."

- Jodi Picoult

"There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them."

- Robert Sternberg

"It is not what is poured into the student but what is planted that counts."

- E.P. Bertin

"Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am."

- Jill Biden

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"The world is changed by your example not by your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."

- William James

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

- Clay P. Bedford

"I saw as a teacher how if you take that spark of learning that those children have and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment."

- Paul Wellstone

"Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light."

- John Webster

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

- Kobe Bryant

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

"A teacher affects eternity. They can never tell where their influence stops."

"To teach is to touch a life forever."

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book."

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others."

"This is a movie. My life is a movie right now."

"Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, 'You know, our family is so proud of you, you're really doing Hispanics proud.'"

"Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life, it’s about what you inspire others to do."

- Unknown