As a teacher, you have the opportunity to inspire your students on a daily basis. Here are some of our favorite inspirational quotes for students from teachers. Sometimes students just need a little extra motivation. Here are 25 quotes from teachers that will inspire your students to reach their potential.
Inspirational Quotes for Students from Teachers
“A teacher attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
“Teachers who inspire their students are uncommon, but there are some. Their reward is in the impact they have on young lives.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body; and valuable as both.”
“A radical idea is like an unexploded bomb. It functions, but it’s dangerous.”
“What use are books if they don’t help you do something?”
“I have never had a teacher, but I’ve learned more from books than any teacher could have taught me.”
“A great teacher helps students find what they already have inside them.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“Anyone can become a teacher, but few are teachers.”
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. You have to focus on success because your attitude is the only thing you can control.”
“I don’t believe in failure. It would not be a failure if you enjoyed the process.”
“When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you will not stay where you are.”
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
“I don’t want to end my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“What you do is what you are. What you are is what you do.”
“Life is a learning experience, and it’s just not the things that you do. It’s what you think. It’s how you feel.”
“You’ll find that being genuine will attract people to your life, like bees to honey.”
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
“I never learned anything while I was talking or listening.”
“Read and study every day, without fail.”
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
“Excellent teaching is not about being a comedian or a magician. It’s about being a conduit for the student’s joy of learning.”
“I am convinced that any man can succeed if he is willing to give up the notion that he has failed.”
“The single most crucial component of a teacher is their ability to listen well.”
“A teacher must believe in her students and do whatever it takes to make them successful.”
“You can’t teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
Encouraging Words for Students from Teachers
“Good teaching is one-fourth of preparation and three-fourths of theater.”
“People would learn from experience if they came prepared.”
“Thinking, learning, and reading are the best antidotes to time wasted and failure.”
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
“The more you laugh, the longer you live and the broader you smile, the more people will want to be around you.”
“One of life’s simple pleasures is a good book.”
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
“Even if others don’t appreciate your efforts, they will admire someone who tries.”
“A good book should not be judged by its cover but by its ability to make you think and feel.”
“Only in one way does learning become a weapon: when it is used to wound others.”
“There’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
“Don’t teach like a teacher, be like the ocean to your students.”
“No man has yet mastered more than a corner of the earth or invented a more significant part of the art of war. A man can learn for himself, but he is but a child still.”
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
“Children are like sponges; they soak everything around them up and do their best to reproduce it.”
“Books tell us what happened before we were born. Most of what we learn from them is what people did or things that happened long ago.”
“If you don’t think education is essential, neither does your child.”
“There’s nothing better than the encouragement of a good teacher.”
“Books are proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
“Get a mentor. But make sure they know it’s not forever.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”
“Education is what survives when what is learned has long been forgotten.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“Without books, life would be a mistake. Without teachers, it would all be a mistake.”
“There are two ways in which people fail the world: by indifference or by over-indulgence.”
“Reading, like prayer, is one of the best things you can do for yourself.”
“Children are the most precious gift we can offer our world.”
“Education is one of humanity’s finest achievements.”
“It is easier to learn wisdom than gold.”
Inspirational Message for Students from Teacher
“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
“With education, you cannot go wrong. Without it, you cannot go right.”
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“Every man that reads good books becomes better.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
“The best teacher is not a person who tells you what to think but one who shows you where to think for yourself.”
“To be used well, a book should leave you with many questions and few answers.”
“A man is known by the company he keeps.”
“The only purpose of a book is to be used sometime.”
“Without books, life would be a mistake.”
“To learn is to change. To be educated is a tremendous change for all.”
“The time has come to care deeply about what we have and to love those who have it with us.”
“When an individual begins to study a subject, he will soon feel its concern for him and realize that it is entirely his own; he feels that he has discovered the world’s most precious possession.”
“I am not sure that I would call it knowledge, but I am sure that it is knowledge, however vast.”
“Life cannot be lived in fear of what tomorrow may bring. Fear is for people who want to live today.”
“The most important thing in education is not telling but showing.”
“If you don’t learn how to think for yourself, you’ll never have the resources to begin.”
“A student is a man who will stop learning when he thinks he knows it all.”
“The secret of opening locked doors and untying knots is to know how to do it.”
“By studying books, we enlarge our minds and make them capable of comprehending anything.”
“It is in our power to make the world better, but we cannot make ourselves better. Therefore our happiness lies in making others happy.”
“Books are the magic key that unlocks the doors of knowledge.”
“Reading opens your mind to new ideas and broadens your understanding.”
“ When we read a book, we can’t choose when to open it. We must take what is offered.”
“What is being said goes first out of me. He must be speaking with perfect sincerity.”
“Nothing goes on in life that men have not written about before. What matters is not whether we know this but whether we read it.”
“To learn is not to know what you will need tomorrow but what you need today.”
“Knowledge can only be accumulated; it cannot be endowed. Knowledge is merely the potential of power. It must have fuel to feed upon before it can become active.”