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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Votes: 6
Alexander the GreatA good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. Votes: 6
Mustafa Kemal AtaturkOne good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. Votes: 5
Philip WylieThe object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. Votes: 5
Elbert HubbardIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Votes: 5
Albert EinsteinGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Votes: 4
Albert EinsteinOpportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. Votes: 4
Ann LandersLife's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Votes: 4
Martin Luther King, Jr.I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Votes: 4
Lily TomlinOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Votes: 4
Helen KellerMy experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now. Votes: 4
Byron KatieOnly two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Votes: 4
Albert EinsteinThe teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. Votes: 3
Robert BreaultInfluence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor. Votes: 3
Stephen G. PostA true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. Votes: 3
Amos Bronson AlcottPain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. Votes: 3
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach...madaming teacher sa labas ng eskwelahan. desisyon mo kung kanino ka magpapaturo. Votes: 3
Bob OngSwami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West. Votes: 3
Huston SmithTrue undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil. Votes: 3
Franz KafkaMy acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites. Votes: 3
Kristin Bauer van StratenYou never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. Votes: 3
H. G. WellsThe good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them. Votes: 3
Stephen NealEverything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher. Votes: 3
Morihei UeshibaExperience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. Votes: 3
Andy AndrewsAs a child I most closely identified with Charlie Browns teacher. Nobody listened. Votes: 3
Gary GulmanThere's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Votes: 3
Flannery O'ConnorMy father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. Votes: 3
Simon van der MeerThe best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view Votes: 3
Jack KerouacWhen you've become strong enough and developed enough, the teacher will fall away. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellBroke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers. Votes: 3
Dave RamseyThe stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. Votes: 3
Aulus Persius FlaccusFear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. Votes: 3
Mary Catherine BatesonIt is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellHistory is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. Votes: 3
Rosa LuxemburgBeing a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out. Votes: 3
Garth GreenwellExperience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience. Votes: 3
Evan EsarScience Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. Votes: 3
Ray BradburyDistance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost. Votes: 3
Goliarda SapienzaWriting comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Votes: 3
Annie ProulxRumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends. Votes: 3
Elizabeth LesserVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. Votes: 3
Seneca the YoungerWar is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. Votes: 3
Sri AurobindoA teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonA teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. Votes: 3
Eckhart TolleExperience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Votes: 3
Vern LawThe Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles. Votes: 3
Swami VivekanandaNo teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you. Votes: 3
Shel SilversteinCharming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. Votes: 3
George FarquharSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Votes: 3
Bill GatesExperience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonA teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. Votes: 3
Wallace StegnerExperience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Votes: 3
Vernon LawMy father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school. Votes: 3
Gordon RamsayMaybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama! Votes: 3
Dalai Lama...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. Votes: 3
John G. KemenyMy acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch. Votes: 3
Brandon Jay McLarenIt was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know. Votes: 3
Leon Battista AlbertiThe cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer. Votes: 3
Isaac AsimovVadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands. Votes: 3
Brigitte BardotWhen you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student. Votes: 3
Byron KatieA true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door. Votes: 3
Nikki RoweThe [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me. Votes: 3
Leopold Sedar SenghorNot the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life. Votes: 3
Debasish MridhaA teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. Votes: 3
Ruth BeechickDo not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. Votes: 3
Gautama BuddhaYou never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student. Votes: 3
Elisabeth RohmNo bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. Votes: 3
William OslerThere is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them. Votes: 3
Robert SternbergSo what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount. Votes: 3
Donald A. NormanI've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher. Votes: 3
John StrachanNo man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher. Votes: 3
Florence Scovel ShinnMy daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher. Votes: 3
Jeanine TesoriAs a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit Votes: 3
Carol Ann TomlinsonA true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him. Votes: 3
Tariq RamadanThe same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. Votes: 3
JuvenalLet us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. Votes: 3
Malala YousafzaiSolitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. Votes: 3
Deepak ChopraNo greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children Votes: 3
David O. McKayIt was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher. Votes: 3
Linda EvangelistaMy father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. Votes: 3
William Butler YeatsAll of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. Votes: 3
Abraham MaslowNearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another. Votes: 3
Loretta YoungEducation is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher. Votes: 3
Virginia Cary HudsonIn the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellFirst and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop Votes: 3
Lou HoltzPeople can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop. Votes: 3
Doug E. FreshI never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things. Votes: 3
Guy DavenportA good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to. Votes: 3
Lourdes Garcia-NavarroMy job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down. Votes: 3
Lauren F. WinnerMy mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts Votes: 3
John LasseterThe ultimate purpose of a teacher is to teach students to think in a better way. Votes: 3
Debasish Mridha M.D.We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher. Votes: 3
Noam ChomskyThe belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. Votes: 3
Aulus Persius FlaccusThe trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. Votes: 3
Robert BreaultMy mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. Votes: 3
John LasseterThere is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. Votes: 3
Victor HugoThe first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task. Votes: 3
Maria MontessoriThere is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiLife is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later. Votes: 3
Daymond JohnIf one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher? Votes: 3
ZhuangziThe best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. Votes: 3
Leo TolstoyFor me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher. Votes: 3
Lucy DeakinsA teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. Votes: 3
Darwin D. MartinI'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that. Votes: 3
John CalipariSuccess is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared. Votes: 3
Sonia SotomayorThe difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul. Votes: 3
Robert A. JohnsonDavid Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk. Votes: 3
Kate ChristensenI'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on. Votes: 3
N. T. WrightTragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher. Votes: 3
Harlan CobenOur pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own. Votes: 3
Debbie FordI'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher. Votes: 3
John MaddenI've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to. Votes: 3
John BarnesBut I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much. Votes: 3
Clay Aikenthere is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be Votes: 3
J. K. RowlingIt is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
Edmond H. FischerI greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all.
Michael Craig-MartinI still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat
Cristiano RonaldoNever talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.
Deborah WilesHe's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.
Elaine PagelsMy teacher once told me " "No one is perfect"¦"¦..that is why pencils have erasers."
Mahesh BhattThe teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be
Pema ChodronThe kundalini comes in two primary forms when it comes forward from a spiritual teacher.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThis very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
Pema ChodronThe whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
Van MorrisonTo know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
William JamesThere wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
Brett Favre[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.
Catherine CamusAs a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.
Desmond TutuIt is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
John Lancaster SpaldingThere's always one teacher you had a crush on; for me, it's my wife's aerobics instructor.
Brian KileyYou say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
Friedrich NietzscheI'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.
Julie LondonYou are not given the light by anyonenot even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.
Swami SatchidanandaFailure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Oprah WinfreyExperience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
Ann LandersPunctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
Boyd K. PackerAcquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
ConfuciusFrankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.
David AllenI was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.
Elton JohnThe Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate.
Pio of PietrelcinaDon't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
Sonia SotomayorBack in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
Chuck BerryFind a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
Joseph GoebbelsWherever you find something extraordinary, youâll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
Arne DuncanThe kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.
Michael FullanI have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility...
W. Howard LesterSometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.
Wendy EwaldA teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.
Bel KaufmanI'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
John LeguizamoIt was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMore important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching....
Sogyal RinpocheThe teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
Andy RooneyI was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school,
Christian LouboutinThe greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.
LaoziAll learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.
Neale Donald WalschWhen I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.
Big SeanOh teacher, I need you like a little child, you got something in you to drive a school boy wild.
Elton JohnJesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.
James RobisonEnsuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.
Michael BennetMost naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.
Rudolf SteinerLoss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
Dean KoontzA Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.
Hillary ClintonIf we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.
Joseph BarrellDiscipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love
Maury MasslerTo be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
Soren KierkegaardHappiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher MorleyThe proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.
David GergenOneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.
G. Stanley HallIf there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
George SteinerIf you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.
Harbhajan Singh YogiWhen the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.
Mary Hatwood FutrellThe useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Walter RaleighEvents are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
Yoko OnoEvery great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.
James Arthur RayThe pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.
Janet JacksonOne can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
Pat ConroyA teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
Wendell BerryYou cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
Andy HargreavesThe economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
Andy HargreavesI think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.
Dana Goldstein... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
Florynce KennedyIf you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!
Mehmet Murat ildanFashion was my teacher.It taught me how to live. When I see clothes I want to become worthy of them.
Novala Takemoto