Best Teacher Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Never trust a man who teaches about death”

“Love is all that awaits you.”

“1. Do what you say you're gonna do”

“Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.”

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.”

“If money is the real solution to every problem, then why the hell wasn't our Prophet ﷺ a millionaire?”

“Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.”

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”

“You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

“The parent is protector and trainer, but never the ultimate teacher. Every parent is responsible for teaching their kid basic moral conduct, manners, the difference between love and hate, and right from wrong. However, after maturity, the child must set off to seek knowledge on their own. Religion is never to be forced. And you cannot threaten your child with hell and tell them your religion is the only right way. There is no one right way. The many ways to the Creator are as varied as the colors of a rainbow.”

“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”

“For a game, you don’t need a teacher.”

“Yeah, I get it; you're a vampire," she said. "Creepy. And okay, a little hot, I admit.”

“Shane, in case we don’t … don’t come out of this, I wanted to say…”

“Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on his skinny hip.”

“Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.”

“Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”

“You okay?”

“She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better.”

“He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?”