Forgiveness Quotes
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-- Mahatma Gandhi
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies
--Voltaire
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.—Unknown
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. --Cherie Carter-Scott
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.--George Herbert
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.—Unknown
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they
must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. -- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. --Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me. --Sara Paddison
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past. --Unknown
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. -Sholem Asch
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --William A. Ward
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. --Lewis B. Smede
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. --Mignon McLaughlin
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. --William Blake:
We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore. –Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is very easy to forgive others their mistake
s; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
--Lord Chesterfield
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. --Logan Pearsall Smith
Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. --Martha Kilpatrick
Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen. --Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. --Anonymous
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
--Mark Twain
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. --E. H. Chapin
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-- Abraham Lincoln
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.-- Josh Billings
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.-- Oscar Wilde
To err is human; to forgive, divine.-- Alexander Pope
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. --Jean Paul Richter
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. --Antonio Porchia
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. --Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. --Mahatma Gandhi
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. --Robert Quillen
Forgiveness is the final form of love. --Reinhold Niebuhr
One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. --John Sheffield
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown
We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. --Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. --George MacDonald
"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare." - Lance Morrow
“Virtue, or rather excellence, will depend on clear judgment, self-control, symmetry of desire, artistry of means” (Durant, 1961, p. 60). In other words, people develop virtue by accumulating experience and not by having intent or maintaining innocence.
Favorite Quotes
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Albert Bandura
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers”
John Smith quotes
"Tribulation, afflictions, and trials will constantly be with us in our sojourn here in this segment of eternity, just as the Savior said, “In the world ye shall have tribulation.” (John 16:33.) Therefore, the great challenge in this earthly life is not to determine how to escape the afflictions and problems, but rather to carefully prepare ourselves to meet them."
--Angel Abrea, "Patience in Affliction", Ensign, May 1992, 25
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. " ~E.F. Schumacker
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life." ~Anne Lamott
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
~John W. Whitehead
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - Above Life's Turmoil
"You cannot change anyone but yourself."
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
London, Jack American author (1876-1916)
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Smede
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” Szasz
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing” George Shaw
“True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.” David Ridge
To be social is to be forgiving” Robert Frost
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
Repentance is another name for aspiration. Henry Beecher
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
REINHOLD NIEBUHR:
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
David McArthur & Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively.
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past.
Thanks to Mike D.
Alden Nowlan
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
Josh Billings
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ~John Sterling
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~Joyce Brothers
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
Author: Anthony J D'Angelo
The only real valuable thing is intuition. -Albert Einstein
“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.”
~ John Naisbitt
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.”
~ Robert Heller
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
~ Albert Einstein
“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”
~ Ingrid Bergman
ANDRE WEIL:
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
D. H. LAWRENCE:
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
G. K. CHESTERTON:
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
HENRY REED:
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER:
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
JOHN ASTIN:
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.
JULES H. POINCARE:
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE:
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
MINNA ANTRIM:
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:
Faith is a passionate intuition.
There are two kinds of light:
the glow that illumines,
and the glare that obscures.
-- James Thurber.
There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them.
-- Unknown.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
-- Samuel Johnson.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-- Albert Einstein.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
-- Dr. Robert Schuller.
My inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
-- Unknown.
Life's lessons contradict each other.
-- Unknown.
God didn't promise us it would be easy or painless; He just promised us it would be worth it!
-- Unknown.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumber with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
-- Unknown.
The secret to patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.
-- Unknown.
To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope that it will be acted upon.
-- Dennis Principle #1 of Management.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
-- Arthur C. Clarke.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
-- Douglas Adams.
Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future, in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.
- Jack Kornfield
Never Let Yesterday Fill Up Today.
- anonymous
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” (Cheshire Cat)
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. --Sarah Ban Breathnach
"People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives." -- Stedman Graham
The more content I am with myself, the fewer material things I need
My goal should not be to have something but to be something
The more secure you feel with yourself, the fewer faults you find in others
No question is ever stupid if you're the one asking it
A good way to save money is to be too busy to go shopping (Ginger Gordy)
"There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children."
~Marianne Williamson
"We should not seek revenge on those who have committed crimes against us, or reply to their crimes with other crimes. We should reflect that by the law of karma, they are in danger of lowly and miserable lives to come, and that our duty to them, as to every being, is to help them to rise towards Nirvana, rather than let them sink to lower levels of rebirth.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama"
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of
dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face
and...Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones
which should be their toys. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time in the wild reminds me how much of what I ordinarily do is mere dithering, how much of what I own is mere encumbrance. The opposite of simplicity, as I understand it, is not complexity but clutter. - Scott Sander
Eric Hoffer:
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
"Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach." -- Arnold Glasow
"If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams." -- Jim Rohn
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decisions." -- Denis Waitley
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." -- Vincent Van Gogh
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
-- Terry Pratchett
"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
-- Mark Twain
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
-- Mark Twain
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-- Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-- Mark Twain
"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
-- Albert Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-- Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-- Albert Einstein
"If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?"
-- Steven Wright
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."
-- Robin Williams
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
-- Wilson Mizner
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
-- Ross MacDonald
"I am not young enough to know everything."
-- Oscar Wilde
"College isn´t the place to go for ideas."
-- Helen Keller
"One of the hardest things to imagine is that you are not smarter than average."
-- Jonathan Fuerbringer
"If you think something small can´t make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room."
-- Unknown
"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them."
-- Tuntematon
"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others"
-- John Kirinrich
The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. ~Ohiyesa of the Santee Sioux (Charles Alexander Eastman)
Happy Quotes
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." -Anon.
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." ~Quincy Jones
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. -Joseph Addison
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~Woody Allen
"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..." -Aristotle
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle
"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." -Buddha
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." -Burton Hills
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." -William Makepeace Thackeray
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -Mark Twain
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
-Martha Washington
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut
"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh -- crying gives me a headache." -Marjorie Pay Hinckley
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade
A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler
Inspiration Quotes
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
“We must nurture our dreams like we would a child. They are God-given and just as precious. Without ambition how would a child learn to ride a bicycle, play an instrument or whistle? We deny the spirit of God when we as adults settle for less than our dreams!” -Conway Stone
"Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer." -Ernest Holmes
What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out. -Father James Keller
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. If an activity is not grounded in 'to love' or 'to learn,' it does not have value. -Anne Rice
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
Teacher Appreciation Quotes
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --Henry Brooks Adams
"Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth." --Helen Caldicott, author and peace activist
"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth." --Dan Rather
"Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care." --Horace Mann
"Compassionate teachers fill a void left by working parents who aren't able to devote enough attention to their children. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills." --Charles Platt
"The future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad... Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy. I must never forget these same young people could be the thieves and murderers of the future. Only a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all! I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile opportunity to improve tomorrow." --Ivan Welton Fitzwater.
"There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher." --Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." --William Arthur Ward
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." --Mark Van Doren
"If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests." --Kuan Chung
"There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race."
--John F. Kennedy
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." --Japanese proverb
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." --Anatole France
"Information is the currency of democracy." --Ralph Nader
"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty." --Thomas Jefferson
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." --Henry Ford
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." --Carl Jung
"Education is light, lack of it darkness." --Russian proverb
"Whoever first coined the phrase 'you're the wind beneath my wings' most assuredly was reflecting on the sublime influence of a very special teacher." --Frank Trujillo
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less." --Lee Iacocca
"Be all that you can be. Find your future--as a teacher." --Madeline Fuchs Holzer
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun
Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. ~Donald D. Quinn
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats
Quotes from Teachers (These just made me laugh)
If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ~Anonymous Teacher
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children. ~Louis Johannot
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
George Bernard Shaw
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning: by praise, but above all, by example.
John Ruskin
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Josef Albers
The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
Joseph Campbell
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth.
Marcus T. Cicero
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.
Plutarch
It is no accident you're my teacher. God knew you were the perfect one. He gave you the passion to mold and shape me, to challenge my mind and make it fun.
Unknown Author
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Anonymous teacher
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger
A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. ~Ever Garrison
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ~Gail Godwin
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung
