Successful Teaching Quotes

#1. Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.

Eric Foner

#2. Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

Tamara L. Chilver

#3. We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Wendy Kopp

#4. We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

Tim Fargo

#5. Planning of the next day's activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?

Basil Moreau

#7. Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

Alice Moore Hubbard

#8. The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

Walter Raleigh

#10. I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

Christina Aguilera

#11. Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

John Dewey

#12. Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Amy Grant

#13. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

Tucker Elliot

#14. I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

Marco Rubio

#15. What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

J. F. C. Fuller

#16. A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

Albert Camus

#17. I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.

Alfred North Whitehead

#18. Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.

Fred Allen

#19. Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance.

Christopher Poindexter

#20. Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

H. P. Blavatsky

#21. The beauty of white clouds:Every morning brings new clouds and sunshine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

James Dyson

#23. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.

Christian Michael

#24. The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

Susan Egan

#25. The key to survival is to learn to add more value - and

Andrew S. Grove

#26. Judicials of common [or general] equity are such as are made according to the law or instinct of nature common to all men: and these in respect of their substance, bind the consciences not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles

William Perkins

#27. You're at a tough age. You want to be treated like an adult, but you still want kid benefits." "I don't feel like a kid." "You're turning fourteen in a couple of months. Ever heard the expression: youth is wasted on the young?

Andrew Peterson

#28. I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

Leonard Orr

#29. My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

Quentin Bryce

#30. We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

Peggy Noonan

#31. The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

J.C. McKeown

#32. Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

Don Meyer

#33. Real wealth comes to the person who learns that we are paid best for the things we do for nothing.

John Wooden

#34. Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

Andreas Schleicher

#35. Our world needs less gurus, and more teachers. Gurus are about helping themselves become successful. Teachers are about helping others become successful.

Joseph C. Kunz Jr.

#36. Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.

Simone Elkeles