Teacher Appreciation

Quotes About Teacher Appreciation 

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners:  it is in making winners out of ordinary people. 

~K. Patricia Cross

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. 

~Henry Adams

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. 

~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

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

~Unknown

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. 

~Alexander the Great

It's easy to make a buck.  It's a lot tougher to make a difference. 

~Tom Brokaw

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. 

~Helen Peters

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

~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." 

~Dan Rather

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. 

~Victor Hugo

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. 

~Karl Menninger

A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes. 

~ Unknown

What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. 

~ Unknown

Discover wildlife:  be a teacher! 

~ Unknown

There's no one quite like a special teacher, and no teacher quite as special as you. 

~ Unknown

When all else fails, pray for a fire drill. 

~ Unknown

Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid. 

~ Unknown

A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart. 

~ Unknown

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom. 

~ Unknown

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.  ~William Shakespeare

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.  Thank you. 

~ Unknown

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. 

~Jacques Barzun

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.  ~Jacques Barzun

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.  The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. 

~ Unknown

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. 

~Cynthia Ozick

There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August. 

~ Unknown

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. 

~G.B. Stern

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. 

~ Unknown

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher.  That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. 

~ Unknown

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.  It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. 

~Voltaire

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. 

~Khalil Gibran

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. 

~Eric Hoffer

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. 

~Gail Godwin

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. 

~G.K. Chesterton

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires. 

~William A. Ward

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. 

~James Allen

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. 

~John E. Southard

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. 

~Tracy Chapman

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

 ~William James

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

 ~William Arthur Ward

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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before — it takes something from him.

~Louis L'Armour

Never strike your wife — even with a flower.

~Hindu Proverb

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

~Ambrose Bierce

Changing from 'kind regards' to just 'regards', to indicate that you're rapidly reaching the end of your tether.

~Rob Temple

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain

Anger is a bad counselor.

~French Proverb

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.

~Neil Kinnock

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

~Wilson Mizner

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

~William H. Walton

Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help.

~Thomas Fuller

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff

Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger. ~Terri Guillemets

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

~Elbert Hubbard

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

~Marcus Antonius