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A teacher: Our role-models, second parents and for the rest of our lives, an undying guide. When we commit a mistake, a good teacher will not hesitate to point them out to us. Also, they help us to walk on the right path and endow us with life skills. A teacher besides involved with main objective of teaching also molds the heart and mind of students. According to definition, a teacher is a person who helps others to learn. Read further to know more about the quotations and sayings on teachers.

Julius Caesar

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Things Experience
Julius Caesar

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

Education
Thora Birch
Roger Moore

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Good Love Home
Roger Moore
Stevie Wonder

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.

Love Flowers
Stevie Wonder
Clayton Kershaw

Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don't see a lot.

Greatness
Clayton Kershaw
Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Art Purpose Curiosity
Anatole France
Jeff Bridges

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

Fathers
Jeff Bridges
William Arthur Ward

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Good Greatness
William Arthur Ward
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Mind
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Sylvester Stallone

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Sylvester Stallone
John Legend

Experience is a great teacher.

Greatness Experience
John Legend
JoJo Siwa

It's a very hard goal. But, what I want is to tell people who are getting bullied to stand up to the bully and not let it be OK - tell a teacher, the principal, or your parents. I want people to stand up and to be confident.

People Parents
JoJo Siwa
MacKenzie Bezos

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.

MacKenzie Bezos

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Appreciation Soul Indebtedness
Carl Jung
Kobe Bryant

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Greatness Sports
Kobe Bryant
Thurgood Marshall

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall
Thomas Paine

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Good Teacher’s Day Practice Purity
Thomas Paine
Horace Mann

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

Desire
Horace Mann
Neil Gorsuch

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

Life
Neil Gorsuch
Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Fathers
Alexander the Great
Rami Malek

My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

Sister Doctor
Rami Malek
Peter Drucker

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Peter Drucker
Elisabeth Shue

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

People Time
Elisabeth Shue
Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Meaningful Advice Patience Practice
Dalai Lama
William Wordsworth

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Things Light Nature
William Wordsworth
Phyllis Diller

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Children
Phyllis Diller
Denis Waitley

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Nothing
Denis Waitley
Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

People Thinking Success
Bill Gates
Tucker Carlson

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Life Positivity School
Tucker Carlson

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

James Franco
Malala Yousafzai

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Inspiration Change World
Malala Yousafzai

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Nation Strength
Jimmy Carter
Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Technology Togetherness
Bill Gates
Dave Chappelle

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

Comedy
Dave Chappelle
Lee Iacocca

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Rest Society
Lee Iacocca
W. H. Auden

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Sleep
W. H. Auden
Kimberly Guilfoyle

My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.

Time Law Children
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Paul Hollywood

Before I was ever a baker, I was a teacher. Or, at least, that is what I thought I was going to be. After O-levels, I went to art school in Wallasey on the Wirral, and my mate Cavan and I did a teacher training course.

Art School Training
Paul Hollywood
Khalil Gibran

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Wisdom Wisdom Mind
Khalil Gibran
Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Life
Jamie Lee Curtis

I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.

Time Luck
RM
Robert Frost

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost
Dr. Seuss

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Lonliness
Dr. Seuss

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

Funny Women
Chris Pratt
C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Modern
C. S. Lewis
Elbert Hubbard

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Elbert Hubbard

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

Walking
John Krasinski
Mark Ruffalo

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Night Library
Mark Ruffalo
Elbert Hubbard

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Elbert Hubbard
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Family Country
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Simone Weil

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil
Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Excitement Knowledge Art
Albert Einstein
Elizabeth Olsen

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

Greatness School History
Elizabeth Olsen
Warren G. Bennis

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Excellence
Warren G. Bennis
Lily Allen

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

Music School
Lily Allen

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad. But he was probably right; I did have a voice a bit like a goat, but my dad told me to never give up and to keep going, and it's paid off.

Sadness Music
Shakira
Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Silence Kindness
Khalil Gibran

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Love Art
Lady Gaga

It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher's intentions were - whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.

School
Jay-Z

I was quite a shy kid, but I was quite funny at school, and I was really into art. In our class, there were two of us who were good at drawing, and my teacher was like, 'He's going to make a wonderful artist one day, and Noel can make everyone laugh.'

Funny Good Art
Noel Fielding
Horace Mann

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

Desire
Horace Mann
Mahatma Gandhi

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Mahatma Gandhi
Chris Cornell

When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

Positivity Time
Chris Cornell
Dakota Fanning

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

Home Movies
Dakota Fanning
Woody Allen

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

School Education
Woody Allen
Eric Hoffer

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Age Busy Time
Eric Hoffer
Patrick Mahomes

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we're running it.

Greatness People Play
Patrick Mahomes
Baltasar Gracian

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Advice
Baltasar Gracian
Cardi B

I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.

Doctor
Cardi B

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

Character
Vin Diesel
Audre Lorde

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

Audre Lorde
William Osler

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler
Jacinda Ardern

The teacher crisis is something we are really worried about during the byelection in Mount Albert. I counted, across a month, seven teachers I identified just in my area who were all leaving - not the profession but Auckland.

Jacinda Ardern

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

Love Age God
Whitney Houston
Warren Buffett

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

People Society
Warren Buffett
Tom Ellis

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

Music Kids
Tom Ellis
Joseph Conrad

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Time World
Joseph Conrad
Rooney Mara

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

Love
Rooney Mara

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

Travelling
Garrett Hedlund
Peyton List

My mom was a theater teacher and helped me out a lot as a kid when I was starting out.

Peyton List
Confucius

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Good
Confucius
William Osler

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Life Age
William Osler
John Krasinski

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

John Krasinski
Jill Biden

I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to reading and I'm used to reading out loud.

Reading
Jill Biden
Harry S. Truman

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

World
Harry S. Truman
Leo Buscaglia

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

Life
Leo Buscaglia
Vladimir Nabokov

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Vladimir Nabokov
Kirsten Dunst

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

Kirsten Dunst
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Matt Bomer

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

Drama
Matt Bomer
Hugh Grant

My mother was a teacher.

Mothers
Hugh Grant
David Blaine

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

Art Science
David Blaine

My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.

Equality History
Brett Kavanaugh
Pope Francis

I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

God Light
Pope Francis
Aristotle

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Knowledge Power
Aristotle
Mary Steenburgen

I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

Mary Steenburgen
Walt Whitman

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Style
Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Learning
Oscar Wilde

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

Dress World
Sarah Jessica Parker
Taika Waititi

My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.

Poetry
Taika Waititi