Quotes about Teachers

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

To fight is to die, to retreat is to die. Better then to fight snd die in the jaws of battle. - Asante Proverb

  "If at first you do succeed, try something harder" - Unknown

  "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him." - Unknown

"Anger is only one letter short of danger." Usher Raymond

 

1 Corinthians 13:1 - 13

Hymn to Love

1Though I command languages both human and angelic - if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing.

2And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge, and though I have all the faith necessary to move mountains - if I am without love, I am nothing. 3Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned - if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever. 4Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, 5it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances. 6Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds joy in the truth. 7It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. 8Love never comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, they will fall silent; and if knowledge, it will be done away with. 9For we know only imperfectly and we prophesy imperfectly, 10but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will be done away with. 11When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things like a child does, and think like a child; but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with all childish ways. 12Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known.

13As it us, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love.

"In prosperity you cannot always tell a true friend, but in adversity you cannot mistake an enemy." - Ecclesiasticus 12;8

  "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow"

"Carpe diem, quan minimum credula postero" "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow" - Horace

  "I change myself, I change the world." - Gloria Anzaldùa

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"A glory comes from daring to begin." - William Shakespeare

  Shoot for the moon, if you miss you're still amongst those stars." - Beanie Siegal (In the Air)

  "If you need a drink, don't take it." Charles Stevenson

  "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven."  Igor Stravinsky

  "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." - Sandra Carey

"It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession." -  Anthony Anderson in The Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw

  "Fall 7 times, stand up 8." - Japanese proverb

  "Talent is like electricity. We do not understand it, we use it." - Maya Angelou

  "We hate some persons because we do not know them, and will not know them because we hate them." - Charles Caleb Colton

  "The only real failure is to quit." - Anonymous

  "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

  "If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart." - Marilyn vos Savant
 
"Knowing the truth and not saying it is as foolish as writing a love letter and not mailing it." - Unknown

  "It is not what has happened that distresses a man, but his judgement about it." - Epicteus of Hierapolis.

  "Nothing can be either loved or hated unless it is first understood." - Leonardo Da Vinci

  "A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that holds it." - Chinese proverb

  "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell

  "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela

  "Ignore weak moments, but never ignore what made you weak at that moment."

  "Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak." - St. Anthony of Padua

  "A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others." - Ben in the animated feature The Barnyard

  "Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns." - J M Clark

  "Only fools test the depth of water with both feet." - African proverb

  "Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them." - Andrew Mason, M D

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

  "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." - Will Rogers

  "In peace I lie down and at once fall asleep, for it is you and none other, Yaweh, who make me rest secure." - Psalm 4:8

  "Dreams come true when the one who is dreaming wakes up to work." -

"Cogito ergo sum." "I think therefore I am." - René Descartes 

  "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

"The impossible cannot have happened; therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances." - Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express

"Be yourself, imitation is suicide." -

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." -

"Fear is temporary, regret is forever." - "

If you lose heart when things go wrong,

                     Your strength is not worth much."

- Proverbs 24:10

"Sickness the human spirit can endure,

                       but when the spirit is broken, who can bear this?"

- Proverbs18:14

"To retort without first listening

                              is both foolish and embarrassing."

- Proverbs 18:13

"A fool takes no pleasure in understanding but only in airing an opinion." - Proverbs 18:2

"A friend is a friend at all times,

                            it is for adversity that a brother is born."

                                                                                                             -Proverbs 17:17
"Disaster will never be far from the house of the one who returns evil for good."                                    

- Proverbs 17:13

"The tongue that soothes is a tree of life;

                      the perverse tongue, a breaker of hearts."

- Proverbs 15:4"

Thoughtless words can wound like a sword,

                       but the tongue of the wise brings healing." - Proverbs 12:18

"A man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything." -

"To find your way through life, follow Jesus." - Our Daily Bread (19th September, 2006)

"No knowledge gained through arduous quest

                             Has made my heart so free

                                As this great fact of time and space -

                                     That Jesus died for me!"

                                                                                              - D. De Han

"A gracious woman acquires honour, violent people acquire wealth." - Proverbs 11:16

"A city is raised on the blessing of the honest, and demolished by the mouth of the wicked." - Proverbs 11:11

"A victim walking through sand looks down and sees dirt, a victor sees the ingredients for building a castle." - Dr. Ben Carson (M D)

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting." - William Shakespeare

"More things are wrought by prayer

                               Than this world dreams of."

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

"So many gods, so many creeds,

                               So many paths that wind and wind

                                     When just the art of being kind

                                            Is all the world needs."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"To be of use in the world is the only way to happiness." - Hans Christian Andersen"

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."- Plutarch

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it." - Don Herold

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, there are souls that are pure and true; then give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." - Madeline Bridges"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change ... courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference." - Kristone

"All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Unless you begin something, no matter what it is, you will never complete it." -

"To give up is the worse disgrace, even though to lose is sometimes inevitable." -

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." -

"Intelligence is not a privilege; it is a gift and must be used for the good of mankind." - Dr. Otto Octavius in Spiderman 2

"My weapon of choice is my voice." - Nasir Jones

"True art lasts forever." - Ludwig van Beethoven

"Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor good character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won." - Maltbie D. Babcock

"When you hear about someone who has failed, you are also hearing about someone who has tried. You can never fail unless you try. There is no disgrace in failing. There is only disgrace in never having tried." - Judy Zerafa

"Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble on heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light." - Matthew 11:28 - 30

"So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:34

"Remember to play after every storm." - Matthew Strepanek

"Money is like manure, it is not worth anything until it is spread around, encouraging little things to grow." - Barbara Streisand as Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly

"Possess your soul with patience."  - Sidney Poitier as Mr. Clemens in Free of Eden

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." - Steward B. Johnson

"An old lady feels uneasy when dry bones are mentioned." - Ibo proverb from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

"Eneke the bird says that since hunters have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching." - Ibo proverb from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

"Winning isn't everything, but the effort to win is." - Zig Zagher

"Fear only fear itself. Fear is the great destroyer." - Frank Herbert

"A nation's wealth is not determined by its natural resources but by the wisdom of its people." -

"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events and great minds talk about ideas." -

"Anything that makes me less than me is not for me." - slogan: abovetheinfluence.com

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be' since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas Kempis

"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas MacAuley

"Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master's chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bring it, unearth it, and gnaw it still." - Henry David Thoreau

"It is a funny thing about life; if you accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - W. Somerset Maughan

"Better starve free than be a fat slave." - Aesop

The ladder of success we climb is not leaning against a building -- it is being held up by every person who ever loved us or taught us.

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task"

"Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task"

"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."

This "you" of you that "you" are is already and energetically flowing through the very eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself being so intimately involved with and flowing through right now. You are going to have to be able to find it and then stop at and as it until you are deeply at rest in and as it for consecutive moments together. This is what has you being this "you" of you that "you" are - nothing less.

"We cannot teach people anything; We can only help them discover it within themselves." 

Listen to your parents and teachers. they got a line on most things, so don't treat em like enemies.  There's always a chance you could learn something.

From all kinds of flowers,
Seek teachings everywhere,
Like a deer that finds
A quiet place to graze,
Seek Seclusion to digest
All you have gathered. . .

It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest.  But that is why the creator gave them to us as teachers.  Now that I am old I Iook once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men. They tell me to be patient.  They tell me I cannot change what is, I can only hope to change what will become.  Let the grasses grow over our scars, they say, and let flowers bloom over our wounds.

A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love.  It is fear, hatred, and prejudice that have to be taught.  And from the condition of the world we can see that unfortunately there are some very good teachers.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong. If we don't get good instruction, then we don't notice when it's a little out of round. Surrender yourself to your teacher. That's doesn't mean you turn over your life to the teacher - you don't want a guru. You have to keep the autonomy within yourself. You are finally the ultimate authority on your own practice.

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.
Every moment is the Guru.

Chapter 11: Being an inspiration for others

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many individuals as we can, as frequently as we can.....Following this line of thinking, it's imperative that we make deliberate effort to increase our inspirational energy, as this will lead us to being both a spiritual learner and teacher simultaneously.

Contemplate the workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your won door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you. Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything-even mountains, rivers, plants, and trees-should be your teacher.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.

As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

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

As Easter time approaches, let me share with you the tender story of an eleven-year-old boy named Philip, a Down's syndrome child who was in a Sunday School class with eight other children. Easter Sunday the teacher brought an empty plastic egg for each child. They were instructed to go out of the church building onto the grounds and put into the egg something that would remind them of the meaning of Easter. All returned joyfully. As each egg was opened there were exclamations of delight at a butterfly, a twig, a flower, a blade of grass. Then the last egg was opened. It was Philip's, and it was empty! Some of the children made fun of Philip. "But, teacher," he said, "teacher, the tomb was empty." A newspaper article announcing Philip's death a few months later noted that at the conclusion of the funeral eight children marched forward and put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that said, "The tomb was empty."

The teacher who transmits his meaning to the understanding of the other person, and impels that individual to action, he is the successful teacher.

Life wounds all of us. At best there is sorrow enough to go round. Yet because the deepest wounds are those of the soul and hidden to mortal sight, we keep hurting each other day by day, inflicting wounds that time mercifully scars over. But the scars remain, ready at a touch to throb angrily and ache again with the old gnawing wild pain. You remember that day in school when the teacher laughed? You were only a little fellow, shy and silent, sitting in the shadow of the big boys, wistfully looking toward the day when you would shine as they did. That day you were sure your chance had come. You were sure that you had just what the teacher wanted on the tip of your tongue, and you jumped up and shouted it out loudly and eagerly, triumphantly - and you were very, very wrong. There followed a flash of astonishment, an instant of dreadful silence, and then the room rang with mirth. You heard only the teacher's laughter, and it drowned your heart. Many years have gone over head since that day, but the sight of a little lad trudging along to school brings it back, and the old pain stirs and beats against the scar. You cover it over, hush it to quiet once more with a smile. "I must have been funny. She couldn't help it." But you wish she had. And there was that time when your best friend failed you. When the loose-tongued gossips started the damaging story and he was pressed for a single word in your defense, he said, "Oh, he's all right. Of course, he's all right, but I don't want to get mixed up in this thing. Can't afford it. Have to think of my own name and my own family, you understand. Good fellow, but I have to keep out of this." You felt forsaken. For weeks and weeks you carried the pain in your heart. The story was bad enough but would right itself. The idea that he should fail you, that he had not, rushed to your side at the first hint of trouble was bad enough, was unbearable. He came back again after it was all over, but the sight of him renewed the ache in your breast and the throb of pain in your throat. The scar was thin, and the hurt beneath it quivered. We all bear scars. Life is a struggle, and hurts must come. But why the unnecessary ones? Why hurt the souls of little children? Why say things to them that they must remember with pain all their lives? Why say the smart, tart thing that goes straight to the heart of someone we love because we would relieve ourselves of the day's tension and throw off a grain of the soul's bitterness? Who are we to inflict wounds and suffering and scars on those about us? Staggering, blind mortals, groping our way from somewhere "here" to somewhere "there" conscious of little but the effort to stay "here" a little longer! It behooves us to travel softly, regardful of one another's happiness, particularly where our path crosses that of those dependent upon us for comfort or enters into the heart of little children.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

Teacher's Conference, 1703. Students today depend upon paper too much. They don't know how to write on a slate without getting chalk dust all over themselves. They can't clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper? Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend upon their slates which are more expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!