Top 58 Be Teachable Quotes
#1. It is a blessed thing to be teachable as a little child, but it is a much more blessed thing when one has been taught the lesson, to carry it out to the letter.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#2. Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them ... For as long as you are green, you can grow.
Mother Teresa
#3. You don't need a long beard to be a sage;
you need to be teachable.
You don't need gray hair to be wise;
you need to be sensible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#5. Be practical,
be skillful,
be teachable,
and you will be successful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. Will we be teachable through the dark moments and difficult seasons?
Anonymous
#7. It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.
Vernon Howard
#8. What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
Roger Ebert
#9. Vision, sometimes called talent, is not a teachable attribute. What
Nancy Kress
#10. WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. In our youth, if we survive them, they're called learning experiences or teachable moments or some-such. And that which does not maim or kill us usually makes us stronger, albeit sometimes also sadder and more cynical.
Charles Stross
#11. Those who have teachable spirit get wiser and wiser daily.
Euginia Herlihy
#12. The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#13. In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.
Drexel Deal
#14. Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on.
Andrew Peterson
#15. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Criss Jami
#16. A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you're a person who knows it all, then you've got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way.
Ron Carpenter Jr.
#17. Whereas goodness makes greatness teachable, greatness makes goodness touchable.
Orrin Woodward
#18. To have teachable spirit gives you the ability to beat the odds and to achieve your full potential.
Euginia Herlihy
#19. When we think we have things already figured out, we're not teachable. Genuine insight can't dawn on a mind that's not open to receive it.
Marianne Williamson
#20. While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.
Julia Cameron
#22. Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.
Robert Farrar Capon
#23. I am a learner, my desire is to be a good listener and to have a teachable spirit in my life time.
Euginia Herlihy
#24. It were well for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the good old ways of God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. It's a moment to learn. This was the thing about miscalculations, errors, and mistakes. You admitted them, you used them as teachable moments, and then you moved on. You didn't forget, but you didn't dwell.
Meg Howrey
#27. I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
Roland Allen
#28. Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
#29. Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
Os Guinness
#30. What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable moment.
Charles Stross
#31. There's nothing like failure and humiliation to make you teachable.
Gary Heavin
#32. Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning.
Todd Blackledge
#33. It is possible to be confident and still practice humility. Be confident in the success of the teachable, sure in the power & grace of That which supports you.
Russell Kyle
#34. When we approach the spiritual journey with an open and teachable spirit, we will continue to gain fresh insights from the Word of God, the people we meet, and the books we digest.
Kenneth D. Boa
#36. Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
John Ruskin
#39. Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty ... a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
J.I. Packer
#40. Facebook is teachable. If you hide items, you'll see fewer of those kinds of items in the future. Like more items, and you'll see more of those in the future.
Robert Scoble
#41. I don't believe things happen by accident. I think that everything that comes into our life, even the really hard things, are intended for good. That they can shape us positively if we'll embrace them and remain teachable and purpose to use that almost like fertilizer to grow out of the experience.
Michael Hyatt
#42. Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.
Judy Woodruff
#43. When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.
Mandy Hale
#44. It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#45. Those who have teachable spirit are the reapers of wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Euginia Herlihy
#46. You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
Dave Ramsey
#47. The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.
Anne Lamott
#48. [One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.
Thales
#49. A "sales process" typically refers to a teachable, repeatable set of steps that you or a sales team could use when working with a potential client or customer to move them from a 'lead' to a 'closed' sales or customer.
Todd Parker
#50. Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.
David DuChemin
#51. Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.
Watchman Nee
#52. Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, that which all things aim at.
Aristotle.
#53. The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
Robert M. Pirsig
#54. If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them
"teachable moments".
Orrin Woodward
#55. When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
Tina Brown
#57. Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.
Monica O Montgomery
#58. Nostalgia reaches into the past with both hands to grasp what is already gone and likely never will be again. Legacy reaches into the past with one hand to grasp what is teachable and passes it forward with the other hand to the next generation.
Al Ainsworth
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