Teachers
- ‘Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.’ –W.B. Yeats
- ‘I am not a teacher, but an awakener.’ –Robert Frost
- ‘I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.’ –Albert Einstein
- ‘Teaching is the highest form of understanding.’ –Aristotle
- ‘When one teaches, two learn.’ –Robert Heinlein
- ‘A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.’ –Henry Adams
- ‘I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them to think.’ –Socrates
- ‘Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.’ –Aristotle
- ‘Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently … and those with “eyes to see and ears to hear’ will respond.’ –The Arturians
- ‘The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.’ –Amos Bronson Alcott
- ‘The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.’ ― William Arthur Ward
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- ‘The best teachers are the ones that change their minds.’ –Terry Heick
- ‘A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.’ –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- ‘Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.’—Unknown
- ‘Good teaching is 1/4 preparation and 3/4 theatre.’ –Gail Goldwin
- ‘The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.’ –Joseph Campbell
- ‘The word ‘education’ comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.’ –Muriel Spark
- ‘The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ –Maria Montessori
- ‘It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.’–Unknown
Students
- “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” — Mark Twain
- “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X
- “Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” — Chinese proverb
- “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” —B.B. King
- “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” — BB King
- “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.” – Plutarch
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein
- “Learning is never done without errors and defeat.” – Vladimir Lenin
- “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
- “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” — Mason Cooley
- “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The expert in anything was once a beginner — Helen Hayes.”
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Stills
- “I think it’s possible to ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” — Elon Musk
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated.” — R Collier
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” — A.A Milne
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- “Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” – Albert Einstein
- "The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss
- “Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.” – Anonymous