Desire To Teach Quotes

#1. I've always been attracted to jerks. They range from sassy weirdos who are ultimately pretty good guys to sociopathic sex addicts, but the common denominator is a bad attitude upon first meeting and a desire to teach me a lesson.

Lena Dunham

#2. Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

James Whistler

#3. This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Marcus Garvey

#4. As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#6. To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#7. On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Marlene Dietrich

#8. I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Idries Shah

#9. What many men desire
that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

William Shakespeare

#10. Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.

Hortense Odlum

#12. With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.

Edmund Hillary

#13. Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.

Poggio Bracciolini

#14. I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

Edgar Meyer

#15. My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#16. The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. The right word? desire!

Napoleon Hill

#17. The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Edgar Degas

#18. Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

Christina Baldwin

#19. My desire to speak didn't come from shallow or materialistic intentions. I have the desire to encourage, to help, to share, to teach...and I found the vehicle that worked best for me through which to do that.

Bethanee Epifani

#20. Are our students choosing not to allow us to teach them because they do not want to be just like us? You see, it is up to them whether they will consider us their teacher (allow us to teach them) and become just like us; therefore, it is up to us to be teachers that they desire to emulate.

Sandra C. Carranza

#21. I will not be in here for ever, I promise. All metaphors need to come up for air. When I can bear no more of separation, when I have learnt all that absence can teach me of desire, the walls will shimmer and I will step out of the mirage, into your arms, to lose myself and find myself.

Kamila Shamsie

#22. I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.

Nikki Rowe

#23. Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

Luce Irigaray

#24. Those trying moments teach us to desire greatness in ourselves and wider humanity.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#25. I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.

Mario Batali

#26. We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Richard Stallman

#27. A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire
much less teach your kids to want.

Mireille Guiliano

#28. God desires to teach us how to submit to others and how to take the second place

Sunday Adelaja

#29. The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning.

Debasish Mridha

#30. No one can teach anyone to be a great anything. If your blood is on fire with the love of language and the desire to make something with words, you probably know that.

Frances Mayes

#31. Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn

T.D. Jakes

#32. My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men

Bryce Courtenay

#33. It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.

Ernie Hudson

#34. What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

Jim Trelease

#35. At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach - it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

Sydney J. Harris

#36. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

#37. I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Francois Fenelon