Top 96 Greatest Teacher Quotes
#1. The gods frowned upon wastrels. Roland had been raised, first by his father and then by Cort, his greatest teacher, to believe this, and so he still believed. Those gods might not punish at once, but sooner or later the penance would be paid. And the longer the wait, the greater the weight.
Stephen King
#2. And the greatest teacher of them all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the Secret time and time again, As ye believe, so shall it be done, unto you.
Earl Nightingale
#3. My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.
Frank Sinatra
#5. Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.
Stevie Wonder
#6. My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.
Jeanine Tesori
#8. Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
Herbert Hoover
#10. Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.
Ian Somerhalder
#11. Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.
Debbie Ford
#12. How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
Lorraine Toussaint
#13. If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.
Eraldo Banovac
#15. Failure is our greatest teacher
Blame blinds us to her lessons
Rick Julian
#17. The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.
Laozi
#19. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.
Eckhart Tolle
#20. Today i am feeling proud that i have a greatest teacher. My encouragement my motivation and my leader is only one that is my teacher. From silent to talkative from dread to cheer all credit goes to teacher for their such a encouragement.
Avinash Advani
#21. Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
George Washington Carver
#22. The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.
Robert Muller
#23. The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.
George Benson
#24. The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type ... Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!
Brittany Maynard
#25. We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have ... the earth and nature.
Dave Davies
#26. Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
Katey Sagal
#28. Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.
James Richardson
#30. The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.
Ram Dass
#32. Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.
Stuart Wilde
#33. The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother.
Vikrmn
#34. Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body
Vsevolod Pudovkin
#35. Love is the greatest preacher and the greatest teacher.
Joseph Pearce
#36. Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
#37. Embrace your past. It's your greatest teacher. When you learn and apply those lessons than it no longer defines your future.
Sarah Centrella
#38. Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.
Stephen Richards
#42. [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
Billy Crystal
#43. I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.
Wayne Dyer
#44. My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had.
Mick Garris
#45. I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.
Rick Riordan
#46. The greatest joy of being a teacher, Mr.Karasuma is when a student provides a clear answer to a question you had your doubts about.
Yusei Matsui
#47. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.
John F. Kennedy
#48. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
Peter Agre
#49. When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.
Woody Harrelson
#50. Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says 'The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.' Offer this gift.
Rob Brezsny
#51. You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.
Pedro Noguera
#52. The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#53. I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.
David F. Swensen
#54. Our enemies are our greatest teachers.
Dalai Lama
#55. Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
Pema Chodron
#56. I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.
Thomas Jefferson
#57. Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.
Marianne Williamson
#58. Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
Richard P. Feynman
#59. My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
Condoleezza Rice
#60. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.
Pat Conroy
#61. The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
Harry Wong
#62. For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#63. Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#64. Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.
Albert Mohler
#65. When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
William Bagley
#66. giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.
Richard Dawkins
#67. It is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.
John G. Kemeny
#68. Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
Gilbert Highet
#69. The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#70. Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#71. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
Robert Thurman
#72. Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#73. God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.
Betty Eadie
#74. I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.
Patricia Arquette
#75. His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.
{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}
J.J. Thomson
#76. Osho is one of India's greatest mystics ... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.
Kabir Bedi
#77. 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
#78. She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
Whitney Houston
#79. I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.
Craig Ferguson
#80. I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
Oprah Winfrey
#81. Books tap the wisdom of our species
the greatest minds, the best teachers
from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
Carl Sagan
#82. I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!
Meg Cabot
#83. I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.
Oprah Winfrey
#84. The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.
Nikolay Konstantinov
#85. I regard Heart-Master Adi Da as one of the greatest teachers in the Western world today.
Irina Tweedie
#86. To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
Joseph Beuys
#87. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
#88. Describing Robert Bunsen:
As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.
Henry Enfield Roscoe
#89. To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
John Strachan
#90. The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher ... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
Kurt Bills
#91. As a good parent or teacher, we should teach our children that failure is an opportunity for improvement and growth, rather than a blockade deterring us from our greatest potential.
Asa Don Brown
#92. don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#94. Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.
Cheryl Richardson
#95. In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
Taylor Mali
#96. TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Fred W. Friendly
