Top 100 Your Teacher Quotes
#1. If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life.
Wu Cheng'en
#2. Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
Wayne W. Dyer
#4. Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.
Piers Anthony
#5. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Bill Gates
#6. Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
Pema Chodron
#7. When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other.
W.A. Mathieu
#8. Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.
Bryant McGill
#9. Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Zig Ziglar
#10. Your life is your teacher and whatever comes to you is the work of your soul. Things are never as they appear on the surface. Your lessons are woven into your losses and challenges and only you can figure out what they mean and allow them to change you.
Karen Clark
#12. Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future.
Jinnul Jr.
#13. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Bruce Lee
#14. When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.
Majid Kazmi
#15. Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.
Muni Natarajan
#16. Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
Jane Yolen
#17. If you start with humility, you see every person as your teacher.
Eric Greitens
#18. You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.
Higa Yuchoku
#20. I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#22. The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.
Steve Maraboli
#23. Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.
Choa Kok Sui
#24. Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from
the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from
what your teacher taught you to do in school.
Margaret Atwood
#25. The best teacher you'll ever have is yourself. I'm not your teacher! I'm here only to show you the way towards what you already know, and also, show you a way to find out what you don't know but feel that it exists.
Irina Serban
#26. Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.
Virginia Cary Hudson
#27. I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You have the answers. You are your teacher.' I thought I was having an auditory hallucination.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#28. You never know whose eyes God is watchin you through. It might not be your teacher, your preacher, or your Sunday school teacher. More likely it's gon' be that bum on the street.
Ron Hall
#29. Once you have met your own soul, you know that you are being guided. You are being led from within, and even the inexorable wheel of life is your teacher. It is the cycle of failure and renewal that slowly lowers you into the arms of a very safe God.
Richard Rohr
#30. You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.
Frederick Lenz
#31. No longer will your Teacher* hide himself, but with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher,r 21And your ears shall hear a word behind you: "This is the way; walk in it," when you would turn to the right or the left.
Anonymous
#32. An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.
Frederick Lenz
#33. When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?
The student replied: "Everything!
Kobun, paused, then said: "No, you".
Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi
#34. Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
T.F. Hodge
#35. Learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!
Michael Jordan
#36. I'll not stop being your teacher just because you've stopped listening.
Pierce Brown
#37. If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it
Mathilde Kschessinska
#38. Make the depths of the stillness as your teacher, and then it will make you the teacher of the depths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. It's like seeing your teacher outside school. It's them, but they're all wrong and out of context
D.C. Pierson
#40. Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years.
Frederick Lenz
#41. The books are your teacher, after and before school.
Deyth Banger
#43. Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#44. If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.
Frederick Lenz
#45. If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
Frank Zappa
#46. Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
Shunryu Suzuki
#47. Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
Polly B. Berends
Polly Berrien Berends
#48. The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
Bill Gates
#49. It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.
Sarah Dessen
#50. When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.
Stephen King
#51. From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
Mark Hoppus
#52. The world is your canvas and your teacher.Take a day to reflect, measure and adjust on your goals; progress is essential to continued success.
Bob Proctor
#53. There is an old saying: No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#55. Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can't wear her smiling face to the platform. You've got to put that smile on your own face.
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. You only find your Teacher once in many lifetimes. Never be afraid to see them and meditate with them. Your Teacher always understands and always forgives.
Frederick Lenz
#57. There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness, allowing the roughness of the situation itself to sand down your own rough edges. In other words, you must be willing to let life itself become your teacher.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#58. Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
Ajahn Chah
#59. You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
Idries Shah
#61. 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.
Morihei Ueshiba
#62. I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.
Stephen Gaskin
#63. If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
Aeschylus
#64. When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.
Gampopa
#65. No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can you do for them? They've got everything. They are everything. They don't need to be worshipped or adored.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Why would you throw a ball in someone's face? ... Huh. That's a pretty good reason. Well, I can't do much about your teacher being pissed, but me and you are good.
Justin Halpern
#68. Let your Teacher be Love itself.
Rumi
#69. Who is your teacher? If you give only one name, then you are not a good student! And who is a good student? He is whose teacher is everyone and everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
Gautama Buddha
#71. Everybody got to write you - but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#72. Sukhvinder is easily discouraged and needs to have more faith in her abilities. There! You see? Your teacher is saying you dont try hard enough, Sukhvinder.
J.K. Rowling
#73. If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.
Bill Wilson
#74. Ye [Anabaptists] be proud contemners of the free grace of God offered to man in Christ Jesus. For with the Pelagians and Papists ye are become teachers of free will, and defenders of your own righteousness
John Knox
#75. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.
Eminem
#76. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#77. Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one.
Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it?
Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.
Robert Bolt
#78. With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
Joko Beck
#79. Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#80. The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.
Charles Benoit
#81. How to be a great teacher:
Know your students.
Know your subject.
Make it relevant.
Teach in an organized place, in an organized way.
Encourage curiosity.
Ask the questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Time is priceless.
Care.
Dee Henderson
#82. I'd always told myself that I deserve good things, that I was worthy, but if I ever believed it. You can't tell yourself anything. Your heart only believes what it feels, and experience is the best teacher.
Penelope Douglas
#83. Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher
that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.
Peter McWilliams
#84. Your dharma is what kind of work you should be doing, what kind of people you should associate with, whether you should have a teacher or not. Dharma encompasses all things and it is specific to the individual.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Why didn't they warn us at school? I'm sure if some teacher had said, "Oh and by the way, it feels like someone sandpapering your cervix," they needn't have bothered with all the AIDS warnings and morality stuff.
Kate Long
#86. It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.
Frederick Lenz
#87. God gets it. When you reach out to him, he's not looking for fancy words that would impress your English teacher. He sees your heart. A groan, a look, a sigh - he speaks every language. He understands.
Max Lucado
#88. I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.
Gregory Colbert
#89. No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
Stephen Chbosky
#90. Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
John Anthony West
#91. I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.
David O. Russell
#92. My dance teacher said "you are not a real dancer until your toes bleed from pointing all day" so I did just that. At that time when I went back to her she said "bravo. You have learned to live with pain. You are a real dancer.
Dancer
#93. Your mentor may not be the teacher you dreamed of, and that's the point. This is your education of what is, not what you think should be.
Jeff Goins
#94. The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'
William Sanderson
#95. You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.
Walton Goggins
#96. Don't swear at your past; you couldn't existed without it! It is the only path to reach today and tomorrow! Remember that past is a great teacher who thought us all we know now!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. When you're three, you don't draw what you see
you draw upon your imagination. Nobody tells you to stop putting wings on people, unless you have a most unfortunate preschool teacher. You are intoxicated by your own magic.
Kirsten Hubbard
#99. A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.
Frederick Lenz
#100. A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.
James Scott Bell
